Ashkan Salamat, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UNLV, poses for a portrait outside his lab at the Robert L. Bigelow Physics Building at UNLV on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, in Las Vegas. Salamat is part of a team that established room temperature superconductivity, which has the potential to advance energy efficiency. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @ellenschmidttt