Image Credits: PixabayInserting highly sensitive quantum sensors into living cells offers a promising approach for monitoring cell growth and detecting diseases—including cancer—at early stages.Diamond Nanocrystals as Quantum Biosensors: Integration ChallengesMany of the most advanced and powerful quantum sensors can be built using tiny pieces of diamond, but this presents a challenge: inserting diamond into...
Credit: PixabayScientists have once again created a synthetic diamond even tougher than natural ones, using a novel approach to diamond formation.By subjecting graphite—a super-hard material in its own right—to extreme pressure and heating it to 1,800 K (1,527 °C or 2,780 °F), the researchers produced a diamond with a hexagonal lattice structure instead of...
Credit: PixabayHeist movies are rarely about solving climate change, and for good reason. It’s hard to imagine George Clooney racing down the highway with a truckload of stolen diamonds, saying, "Hey, let’s crush these sparkly gems into powder and scatter them through the stratosphere to cool the planet."Calculating Diamonds for Global CoolingHowever, a team...
