Lab-Grown Diamonds Make the Cut
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GIA grading of artificial diamonds alongside natural stones strikes a blow to the mining monopoly. By Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.
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A new detector combines a laser with  a mass spectrometer to provide on-the-spot analysis that  researchers hope will have applications ranging from evaluating  a tumor as it is removed to quickly detecting explosives in  luggage.
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A breakthrough technology is generating hyper growth.
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New Japanese research into silicon carbide growth could revolutionise the electronics industry. A team of scientists has developed a method of making near-perfect silicon carbide crystals.
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Nanoparticles allow researchers to initiate biochemical events at will.
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Brighter than ten billion suns The first research projects have begun at the newly opened Diamond Light Source, a state of the art synchrotron facility in Oxfordshire.â¦
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The bright green rocks jutting through the prairie soil were hard to miss, but Tom Charlton still couldn't believe his eyes. It was kimberlite, the molten rock in which diamonds are found, and preliminary tests had yielded a microscopic diamond.
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The giant Diamond synchrotron being built in England is to receive a further Â£120m of funding.
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While some scientists try to build nano machines from scratch, others are discovering uses for single-celled organisms that are already available. By Monya Baker from Wired magazine.
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A breakthrough in the way scientists make crystals could lead to a replacement for silicon in electronic devices.
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MIT scientists perfect the use of light beams as a tweezer-like tool for manipulating microscopic objects.
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IBM Corp. researchers are touting one of the tiniest pieces of art ever made &#151; an image of the sun made from 20,000 microscopic particles of gold. The precision required is a breakthrough that heralds ultra-miniature sensors, lenses and wires inside nanoscale circuits of the future.
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Researchers say they have created a silicon-based chip that can produce laser beams to send data between chips.
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Superblack material made from microscopic carbon nanotubes is produced in a US laboratory.
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Scientists say they have made a major step toward creating synthetic forms of life.
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Tiny diamonds found in Australia suggest the early Earth was not a hellish world for as long as previously supposed, scientists say.
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Exposing diamonds to a simple UV test can separate the phonies from the genuine article, researchers at the Smithsonian say.