Are the diamond’s days as an indestructible substance numbered? Possibly. At about 170,000 atmospheres, scientists managed to use super-hard graphite to crack one in 2003, but the exact reason why was somewhat of a mystery. Now maybe it’s not.
Today, two professors won the Nobel prize for physics “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”. The Nobel is the Olympic gold of science. But what is graphene, and why did it earn these guys over a million bucks?
Researchers trying to determine the age of deceased individuals are finding success with a new method: looking in people’s mouths. Nuclear bomb testing in the 1950s, it turns out, turned everyone’s teeth into radioactive clocks.
Did you know that researchers are studying the possibilities of carbon nanotube speakers? They’d be powered by lasers and could be hidden into walls and windows to noise-cancel ambient rackets. Or blast some music.
