It's been under discussion on Hacker News all day... the conclus

It's been under discussion on Hacker News all day... the conclusion from people that specialize in materials science seems to be: Looks very much like they'd expect such a discovery to look - the graphs make sense, and in the video linked from the second paper, the material behaves as would be expected of a superconductor on a magnet. The numbers reported for conductivity and other properties are not ideal for a practical superconductor. Suspicion is that the initial samples suffer from crystal growth limitations and that if that is the case, getting better conductivity is mostly about better manufacturing methods The production process is dead simple, involves no exotic materials, and probably could be done in a garage. This appears to be precisely what's going on as I'm writing this, with labs and garage tinkerers (Applied Science, maybe?) alike racing to try to duplicate the material described in the paper. Because it's simple to make, we'll know very very quickly (tomorrow or later this week) whether this is a real ambient temp/pressure superconductor, because someone should be able to reproduce the paper's results. The notable thing about this material is that it exists and proves that room temp (actually above that, up to 127C) superconductors are possible. It may be possible to refine the material to become a practical superconductor itself, but the fact that this is possible AT ALL is mind blowing and worthy of a Nobel prize. Gonna be an interesting week.