Carbon, the backbone of all known life and one of the most abundant elements in the universe, has just yielded one of its most closely guarded secrets. In a landmark study published in Nature Physics, researchers report direct experimental evidence for the melting of diamond at pressures approaching one terapascal—nearly ten million times the pressure […]
This story is only covered by news sources that have yet to be evaluated by the independent media monitoring agencies we use to assess the quality and reliability of news outlets on our platform. Learn more here.
Even the diamond eventually melts, but under very special conditions. Diamond is a crystal-clear form of carbon. Its atoms are organized in a particularly resistant network. At ordinary pressure, heating it is not enough to obtain a...