If it doesn’t scare you that a autocratic regime is evidently doing science much faster than anyone in the free and open societies of the West, then you aren’t paying attention.

LK-99 is:

1). A room temperature superconductor

2). An asian thing

Not a single Western University has made even 1 mg of LK-99 in the two weeks since the initial paper. The only sample of the material that exists in the Western Hemisphere was made by engineers at a private company doing a weekend side project as a hobby.

Western academia has literally disappeared up its own woke arse.

Where are our institutions?