Researchers had long been amazed by lonsdaleite, meaning hexagonal diamonds. Now they may finally know the origin behind their existence: a dwarf planet colliding with a big asteroid at a time when our Solar System was only beginning to form ...
Highly desirable diamond nano threads, which are as solid as diamond and as pliable as plastic, have the potential to alter our world—if only they had not been so hard to manufacture. Researchers headed by Carnegie’s Samuel Dunning and Timothy ...