Ordering Physical Comics Books Is About to Get Slightly Easier
One of the most intimidating aspects of getting into comics for the first time is... well, the actual process of buying…
Please Try Not To Be Shocked, But Star Wars Was the Best-Selling Comic of 2015
If a single force dominated the pop culture world last year, it was the reawakening of the titan that is Star Wars.…
There's a New Form of Carbon That's Harder Than Diamond
Researchers have discovered a new form of carbon structure, called Q-carbon, that’s harder than diamond and allows…
Our Future Space Elevator May Be Built of Diamond
If the notion that humans will one day ascend into orbit on a rope of ultra strong carbon nanofibers sounds a bit out…
Scientists Can Levitate Nanodiamonds in a Vacuum Using Laser Light
A team of researchers from the University of Rochester has managed to levitate nanodiamonds in a vacuum using laser…
Scientists Image a Shock Wave Pulsing Through Diamond for First Time
Even the hardest of materials react to immense pressures. In this image, x-ray imaging reveals how a laser-generated…
You Can Make Diamonds Out of Peanut Butter
Diamond's are beautiful but, sadly, rather expensive. Now, though, Dan Frost of the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Germany…
This extremely rare blue diamond was just found in South Africa
This 29.6 carat blue diamond was found last week at the Cullinan Diamond Mine near Pretoria, South Africa, the same…
A New Carbon Supermaterial Is Stronger Than Graphene and Diamond
Move over graphene; get outta here diamond. There's a new carbon supermaterial in town, and it's stronger and stiffer…
This Credit Card Costs $100,000 and an Imbecile's Soul
This credit card is made of gold and diamonds. Called Visa Infinite, you have to pay $100,000 to the Russian 'Sberbank…
One of the first exoplanets ever discovered could actually be made of diamond
Remember 55 Cancri e? Sure you do — and if you don't, you should. After all, it may be the first diamond planet ever…
This Machine Melts Diamonds For Fun
Pressure that can melt diamond, an electromagnetic pulse that can kill, and enough current to light 100 million light…
New diamonds are ugly but useful — and old ones are pretty but weak
Materials scientists have created a substance called 'new diamond.' It has the hardness of diamonds, without one of…
The Biggest Diamond in the Universe Is Actually a Planet
Astronomers and gold diggers were excited when scientists discovered a planet littered with diamonds. That's just okay…
Contact Lenses Made from Diamonds & Gold Are Too Much Bling
I'm all for spending money anyway you want to—grills, watches, boulder-sized rings, blinging chains—but come on, paying…
Lasers reveal the scientific basis for sparkly vampires?
A recent scientific discovery reveals a remarkable similarity between vampires and diamonds - other than the fact that…
7 Tools For Fire Starters
Little dude here is dead serious about his lighter (note the 1000 yard stare)—too bad it's only a Bic. Here are seven…
Dense, sparkling ultra-diamonds could be the next superconductors
Carbon is one of the most versatile materials in the universe, forming everything from the graphite found in the…
Don't Swallow a Stolen Diamond Cause They'll Come After You with a Colonoscopy
What would you do if you were caught stealing a diamond? Drop it? Hide it? Swallow it? That's what this diamond thief…
Fluffy diamonds could be a completely new form of carbon
Imagine an ordinary carbon atom that's replaced with a tightly packed pyramid of four carbon atoms. Inspired by Egypt's…