Practical Machine Learning Techniques to Accelerate Materials Science Research

The U.S. energy grid loses about 5% of its power due to resistive losses in its transmission lines, according to an estimate from the EIA. What if we could find a way to eliminate all of that? As it turns out, there's a really cool class of materials called superconductors -- materials that conduct electricity with 0 resistance. I'll admit, I'm no expert on how exactly the superconducting phenomenon happens. What I do know is that it only happens when the given material gets really cold -- we're talking down to single digits of Kelvin.