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Rare Hexagonal Diamond is Finally Created in the Lab, Overturning Decades of Controversy
For the first time, researchers in China have synthetically produced a nearly pure hexagonal diamond, marking a significant ...
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Asteroids Can Strike Earth With Such Force They Form A Material Harder Than Diamond
The material withstands 58 percent more stress than diamonds, and could have "remarkable mechanical properties".
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China Develops Super Rare High Quality Diamond
Researchers from two higher-education institutions in China created a super rare high-quality diamond in the lab.
Chinese scientists make rare, ultra-hard, pure ‘super diamond’ in the lab
The first ultra-hard diamond was found in the Canyon Diablo meteorite in Arizona in 1967. Scientists have struggled to recreate lonsdaleite in the laboratory but now, a team of Chinese researchers ...
Scientists find traces of life’s building blocks in historic asteroid samples
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...