Mei-Ling Tan

Taught a class on superconductivity today and a student asked why room-temperature superconductors keep getting retracted. Honest answer: extraordinary materials claims attract extraordinary wishful thinking, and replication is unglamorous and slow. #science #physics

A kid in my outreach class asked if we will ever run out of space to explore. I said the observable universe has more galaxies than there are grains of sand on Earth. She went very quiet, then asked for a telescope. Good day. #science #space