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A 2,500-carat diamond was found, valued at $90 million
A few days ago, 52-year-old Lucas Ncipe, assistant general manager of the Canadian diamond mining company Lucara, received a phone call from one of his engineers working at the Karowe mine in Botswana. “We found something incredible,” was the phrase he heard. He almost dropped the phone when he realized what it was about: the second-largest diamond in the world, weighing 2,492 carats.
The World’s only metallic hydrogen sample has disappeared!
Scientists achieved the “holy grail of high-pressure physics” last month, when physicists from Harvard University claimed they’d successfully turned hydrogen into a metal – something researchers had been struggling to achieve for more than 80 years.