Rapper Lil Uzi Vert went viral recently after posting images of himself with a rather expensive accessory. In a bizarre move, the 26-year-old has seem… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/343657/rapper-has-diamond-implanted-in-his-head…
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How the Comics Industry Avoided a 2020 Implosion
While publishers and stores feared COVID-19 would be an extinction-level threat, the industry has proved more resilient than thought. From a report: In March, when COVID-19 hit the comic industry in earnest, many retailers and publishers feared it would be an apocalyptic event for the business. Stay-at-home orders shuttered stores, and shipments of new product ceased for several months when Diamond…
An Asteroid the Size of a Dwarf Planet Is Lurking In Our Solar System
Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot summarizes an article from LiveScience: There’s a giant asteroid somewhere out in the solar system, and it hurled a big rock at Earth. The evidence for this mystery space rock comes from a diamond-studded meteor that exploded over Sudan in 2008. NASA had spotted the 9-ton (8,200 kilograms), 13-foot (4 meters) meteor heading toward the planet well…
Scientists and Philosopher Team Up, Propose a New Way To Categorize Minerals
An anonymous reader shares a report: Some diamonds were formed billions of years ago in space as the carbon-rich atmospheres of dying stars expanded and cooled. In our own planet’s lifetime, high-temperatures and pressures in the mantle produced the diamonds that are familiar to us as gems. 5,000 years ago, a large meteorite that struck a carbon-rich sediment on Earth produced…
Diamond in the Sky
When the shadow of the Moon raced across planet Earth’s Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
What’s the birthstone for December?
If you were born December, you’ve got 2 birthstones, turquoise and zircon. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/december-birthstone-zircon-turquoise…
Scientists Produce Rare Diamonds In Minutes At Room Temperature
Iwastheone writes: While traditional diamonds are formed over billions of years deep in the Earth where extreme pressures and temperatures provide just the right conditions to crystalize carbon, scientists are working on more expedient ways of forging the precious stones. An international team of researchers has succeeded in whittling this process down to mere minutes, demonstrating a new technique where they…
Diamond-encrusted COVID mask sells for $1.5M
A jeweler in Israel has created and sold what is being described as the world’s most expensive COVID mask. Most coronavirus masks cost just a few buck… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/338751/diamond-encrusted-covid-mask-sells-for-15m…
A New Artificial Material Effectively Cannot Be Cut
Researchers from the University of Stirling, UK, have embedded ceramic spheres in aluminum foam to create a material that couldn’t be cut with angle grinders, power drills or water jet cutters. “They dubbed it Proteus after the shape-shifting Greek god, for the way the material metamorphosed in different ways to defend against attacks,” reports New Scientists. From the report: “It’s pretty…
Newly discovered form of carbon is more resilient than diamond
A computer simulation found a pentagon-shaped carbon molecule that would be as hard as diamond and could tolerate temperatures of almost 4000°C without breaking down Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247671-newly-discovered-form-of-carbon-is-more-resilient-than-diamond/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…