IntroductionOver the last week, the news of “LK-99” and the potential for room temperature superconductors to be manufactured from relatively easy-to-find materials and equipment has caused the internet to lose its collective cool. Two Korean scientists working in obscurity for 20 years defied modern understanding of material science, and changed the mood in science overnight. The unassuming Korean team demonstrated something equally as revolutionary as the superconductors: that eureka moment...