Zack Geballe spent months screwing together pairs of polished diamonds at the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Geophysical Laboratory. Theory predicted that squeezed between the diamonds’ tips could be one of the most miraculous substances of modern physics—a material that, at near room temperature, could transport…Read more… Source: https://gizmodo.com/the-quest-for-the-most-elusive-material-in-physics-1833846121…
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A Cooler Earth Billions Of Years Ago May Be The Reason Why We Have Diamonds
A new study suggests that a cooler Earth billions of years ago is the reason why we have diamonds instead of lumps of graphite. Professor Balz Kamber from QUT’s Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences School, along with Professor Emma Tomlinson from the Department of Geology at Trinity College Dublin co-authored a study where they examined… Continue reading A Cooler Earth Billions Of Years Ago May Be The Reason Why We Have Diamonds