Welcome to Boiling Point. I’m Melody Petersen, a reporter on The Times’ climate team, writing the newsletter this week to fill in for my colleague Sammy Roth. California’s Death Valley is ...

Researchers studying the link between strange metals and superconductivity have made a breakthrough towards answering a long standing question in condensed-matter physics ...

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