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Sometimes a stock that is in the dumps deserves to be, and betting on it is the functional equivalent of catching a falling knife.

The listing adds, “The custom lacquered kitchen, finished in rich Aegean blue with bronze accents and Calacatta marble, is as functional as it is striking.”

The team's next goal is to design fully functional cryogenic devices based on STO's unique properties.

If materials could superconduct at warmer, more practical temperatures, they could transform modern technology -- from creating energy grids that waste no power to enabling more functional quantum computers.

Others say the partial funding is a functional lockout.