Breakthrough by Argonne, UChicago researchers could help pave way for quantum infrastructure. In work supported by the Q-NEXT quantum research center, scientists ​“stretch” thin films...]]> https://scitechdaily.com/stretching-the-limits-how-diamond-manipulation-enhances-quantum-bits/feed/ 2 https://scitechdaily.com/unlocking-the-pink-diamonds-secrets-scientists-uncover-key-missing-ingredient/ https://scitechdaily.com/unlocking-the-pink-diamonds-secrets-scientists-uncover-key-missing-ingredient/#respond Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:20:41 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=320574

Curtin University researchers studying diamond-rich rocks from Western Australia’s Argyle volcano have identified the missing third key ingredient needed to bring valuable pink diamonds to...]]> https://scitechdaily.com/unlocking-the-pink-diamonds-secrets-scientists-uncover-key-missing-ingredient/feed/ 0 https://scitechdaily.com/what-causes-diamonds-to-erupt-scientists-crack-the-code/ https://scitechdaily.com/what-causes-diamonds-to-erupt-scientists-crack-the-code/#comments Sat, 12 Aug 2023 19:07:04 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=298974

New findings hold the potential to spark future diamond discoveries. An international team of scientists, led by the University of Southampton, has found that the...]]> https://scitechdaily.com/what-causes-diamonds-to-erupt-scientists-crack-the-code/feed/ 1 https://scitechdaily.com/diamonds-that-formed-deep-in-the-earth-could-help-explain-earthquake-mystery/ https://scitechdaily.com/diamonds-that-formed-deep-in-the-earth-could-help-explain-earthquake-mystery/#respond Sat, 23 Apr 2022 17:17:08 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=167372

What Can Deep Diamonds Tell Us About Deep Earthquakes? Diamonds that formed deep in the Earth could help seismologists answer a decades-old question: could fluids...]]> https://scitechdaily.com/diamonds-that-formed-deep-in-the-earth-could-help-explain-earthquake-mystery/feed/ 0 https://scitechdaily.com/new-ultrahard-diamond-glass-synthesized-using-carbon-buckyballs/ https://scitechdaily.com/new-ultrahard-diamond-glass-synthesized-using-carbon-buckyballs/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2021 02:18:44 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=144213

It is the hardest known glass with the highest thermal conductivity among all glass materials. Carnegie’s Yingwei Fei and Lin Wang were part of an...]]> https://scitechdaily.com/new-ultrahard-diamond-glass-synthesized-using-carbon-buckyballs/feed/ 2 https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-mineral-from-deep-inside-the-earth-discovered-in-a-diamond/ https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-mineral-from-deep-inside-the-earth-discovered-in-a-diamond/#respond Fri, 19 Nov 2021 23:00:12 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=143661

For the first time, a high-pressure calcium silicate perovskite (CaSiO3) has been identified as a naturally occurring mineral from Earth’s lower mantle, researchers report. The...]]> https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-mineral-from-deep-inside-the-earth-discovered-in-a-diamond/feed/ 0 https://scitechdaily.com/first-ever-interior-earth-mineral-discovered-in-nature-it-shouldnt-be-here/ https://scitechdaily.com/first-ever-interior-earth-mineral-discovered-in-nature-it-shouldnt-be-here/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2021 20:15:55 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=143338

New mineral from Earth’s lower mantle surfaced as diamond inclusion; study led by UNLV geochemist Oliver Tschauner. UNLV geochemists have discovered a new mineral on...]]> https://scitechdaily.com/first-ever-interior-earth-mineral-discovered-in-nature-it-shouldnt-be-here/feed/ 2 https://scitechdaily.com/new-glass-and-synthetic-diamond-foundation-for-nanostructures/ https://scitechdaily.com/new-glass-and-synthetic-diamond-foundation-for-nanostructures/#comments Wed, 02 Oct 2019 19:11:49 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=62103

Diamonds Are Forever: New Foundation for Nanostructures Devices smaller than the width of a human hair are key to technologies for drug delivery, semiconductors, and...]]> https://scitechdaily.com/new-glass-and-synthetic-diamond-foundation-for-nanostructures/feed/ 1 https://scitechdaily.com/diamonds-are-like-the-earths-champagne-corks/ https://scitechdaily.com/diamonds-are-like-the-earths-champagne-corks/#respond Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:04:38 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=3025

It has been demonstrated experimentally that a diamond’s trip from deep below the Earth’s surface must be very quick, since lab tests have shown that...]]> https://scitechdaily.com/diamonds-are-like-the-earths-champagne-corks/feed/ 0