High-temperature superconductivity researchers are a skeptical bunch. But they can be drawn in by a good mystery. And at the Seventh Conference on Superconductivity and Applications earlier this month in Buffalo, New York, about 100 researchers were treated to both hard evidence and tantalizing clues. Among the progress reports on applications of high-temperature superconductors, researchers viewed new evidence pointing to the mechanism behind such superconductivity and a review of strange glimmers of superconductivity near and above room temperature.