Educator Guide: Smart Underwear and a Record-Breaking Superconductor

Scientists develop and deploy new tech to answer this question: How many farts per day is “normal?” Learn how the researchers’ experimental design evolved, sometimes in unconventional ways, and discuss how this new tech might help people in the future.

Students will investigate how researchers apply the principles of energy, pressure, temperature and resistance to superconductor research. Students will analyze data to determine the relationship between pressure and temperature in superconducting materials. They will also consider how researchers use this relationship to create new methods for developing superconductors.