This discovery is expected to bring a huge revolution in the world of energy and electronics.

According to the latest report, a professor named Ranga Dias and his colleagues at the University of Rochester in New York have discovered a new material from nitrogen, hydrogen, and lutetium that becomes superconductive at a temperature of just 69°F and a pressure of 1 gigapascal.

That is about 10,000 times the atmospheric pressure on Earth's surface, but still a far lower pressure than any previous superconducting material.

This discovery is expected to bring a huge revolution in the world of energy and electronics. It may pave the way for hovering trains and ultra-efficient electrical grids. It could be used in airborne high-speed trains, MRI, memories, electronic circuits, and more.

More about the material

The newly discovered material has been nicknamed 'reddmatter', after its colour and as a nod to a material from Star Trek.

The team made the material by taking a rare earth metal named lutetium and mixing it with hydrogen and a small part of nitrogen. They were then left to react for two or three days, at high temperatures.

Ranga Dias' statement

Dias said in a statement: "Let's say you were riding a horse in the 1940s when you saw a Ferrari driving past you-that's the level of difference between previous experiments and this one."

"With this material, the dawn of ambient superconductivity and applied technologies has arrived.

A pathway to superconducting consumer electronics, energy transfer lines, transportation, and significant improvements of magnetic confinement for fusion are now a reality," he added.

According to Dias, "we are now at the modern superconducting era".

The researchers' statement

The researchers described in a paper in the popular scientific journal Nature how they combined the three components to create the material by pressing it between two diamond anvils, a device that compresses materials to extremely high pressures. Its colour shifted from blue to red when the substance was crushed, earning the term "red matter".