I'm a long time friend with Pablo, the main researcher behind this discovery, since our time together at the university.<p>Every time this pops up there is some comment dismissing the discovery as yet another graphene theoretical breakthrough with no practical application. This discovery can help us better understand superconductivity at high temperatures, and that along will qualify it as a major discovery. It can also be super important in practice if we manage to bring graphene out of the lab.<p>Not everything hits mass market in a 5 years timeframe... in the short term it may seem we have a slow rate of adoption of new technologies, but if you take a step back you can see the rate is fabulous. Graphene, batteries, solar cells and before them, transistors, nuclear power, etc. may take a while to hit the market, when they hit it they hit it hard.