Glennda Chui

Senior Editor

Glennda edits all sorts of materials and writes about things like quantum materials, making fuels from water and building better batteries. She’s a former science reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and lecturer in the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program, and holds a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's degree in journalism. She’s fond of tiny things, from skyrmions to spiders, and loves to sing and dance.

News Feature

It reveals an abrupt transition in cuprates where particles give up their individuality. The results flip a popular theory on its head.

Illustration of abrupt transition in normal state of a cuprate

News Brief

Computer simulations yield a much more accurate picture of these states of matter.

Illustration of a Monte Carlo simulation

News Feature

The Hubbard model, used to understand electron behavior in numerous quantum materials, now shows us its stripes, and superconductivity too, in simulations for cuprate...

Diagram of electrons moving to neighboring atoms in Hubbard model

News Feature

SUNCAT researchers discover a way to improve a key step in these conversions, and explore what it would take to turn the climate-changing gas...

Diagram of scheme for turning CO2 from smokestacks into products

Press Release

Made with ‘Jenga chemistry,’ the discovery could help crack the mystery of how high-temperature superconductors work.

Illustration of 'Jenga chemistry' step of making new superconductor

News Feature

The studies could lead to a new understanding of how high-temperature superconductors operate.

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SLAC science explained

Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Expecting the Unexpected with AI at Particle Colliders

Glennda Chui

Study sheds light on the really peculiar ‘normal’ phase of high-temperature superconductors

Theorists probe the relationship between ‘strange metals’ and high-temperature superconductors

Scientists finally find superconductivity in exactly the place they've been looking for decades

Plastics, fuels and chemical feedstocks from CO2? They’re working on it.

First report of superconductivity in a nickel oxide material

Scientists report two advances in understanding the role of ‘charge stripes’ in superconducting materials

Written by Glennda Chui