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How Scientists Cracked the Secret To Making Diamonds
New ReviewFor centuries, diamonds were one of the most mysterious materials on Earth. They were beautiful, indestructible, and completely unexplained. Today, we’re exploring how scientists unlocked their secrets, and how one lab recreates the...
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The Mystery Of Earth's Diamond Elevators
Diamonds are cool, but they form really far below the Earth's crust, and the main way they get to the surface(ish) is through rock formations called kimberlites. And these kimberlites are really rare and really weird. So let's talk about...
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Why Did Botswana Win the Diamond Lottery So Hard?
Of the 10 largest rough diamonds ever mined, 6 of them have come from the African nation of Botswana. Russia is the only country that produces more diamonds by volume, but the individual gems don't tend to be as large. So why is Botswana...
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Why the Hardest Rocks Can Be Easy to Break
So, rocks are hard. But the scale we use to rank them, the Mohs scale, is only really good at quantifying that for one kind of hardness, and topaz is a perfect stone to talk about to explain that. And you can check it out in our SciShow...
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What Happens When Matter is Pushed to the Extreme
Improving batteries is a tough problem, but it’s also an important one because in many ways the future of our planet also depends on the future of batteries. Luckily, scientists are on the case, figuring out ways to give this essential...
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Radiation Is a Green Diamond’s Best Friend
Diamonds are iconic, but some of them might make others a little green with envy.
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Gas Giants Weather
Last time, we learned that there is in fact weather on other planets. But those were the rocky planets, like Earth. What about the big Gas Giants? What's the weather like there? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us on a...
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Did Scientists Really Make Metallic Hydrogen?
The Researchers reconstructed the face of the organism which might be one of our earliest ancestors. Meanwhile, two researchers from Harvard announced that they have created solid metallic hydrogen.
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Special Valentine Science!
Want to get your sweetheart something really special? Give them a mineral called fingerite, and then stare at them for a while! Find out why, in this Valentine's Day edition of SciShow News.
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The Hardest We've Ever Pushed Matter
Scientists have had to come up with some extreme ways to generate the extreme pressures needed to simulate the conditions at the cores of planets!
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A Violent Origin Story for Tiny Space Diamonds | SciShow News
Scientists may have discovered some clues to two vastly different anomalies. Microscopic diamonds inside of meteors, and why ancient black holes are so massive.
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Is That Shiny Thing Pretty, or Are You Just Thirsty?
Humans are fascinated by shiny stuff. Not only do we find these things attractive, but we also tend to perceive them as being high quality. Well, turns out this infatuation may be related to our evolutionary relationship to water.
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Snowstorms on Mars!
New research looks into how snow falls on Mars, and scientists have been looking into other things falling from the sky onto planets: diamonds!
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TED-ED: The paradox of value - Akshita Agarwal
Imagine you're on a game show and you can choose between two prizes: a diamond - or a bottle of water. It's an easy choice _ the diamonds are more valuable. But if given the same choice when you were dehydrated in the desert, after...
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SciShow Quiz Show: Why Humans Are Weird!
In this explosive episode of SciShow Quiz Show, Hank Green and SciShow writer Dave Loos test their knowledge of diamonds, the environment, and the many reasons why humans are very strange creatures.
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NASA Just Launched a New, Planet-Hunting Telescope!
From launching a new satellite, to finding diamonds from a lost world, researchers have been hard at work transforming how we think about our planet, the solar system, and the rest of the universe.
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7 Ways We Know What's Inside the Earth
Thanks to some amazing scientific insights, we know a lot about the interior of our planet - even though we’ve never even made it through the crust.
TED Talks
TED: Close-up card magic with a twist | Lennart Green
Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, "Pick a card, any card." But what he does with those cards is pure magic -- flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic.
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3 Weird Meteorites (Whose Weirdness Was Instructive)
Meteorites are extraterrestrial rocks that have ended up on earth. All of them are literally 'out of this world,' but here are three of the strangest of these aliens.
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The Mystery of the Black Diamond
There are still lots of unsolved mystery about carbonados ("black diamonds"), and geologists even think those mystery rocks come from outside of Earth.
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Where Do Diamonds Come From
Diamonds. You see them in jewelry stores, celebrities flaunting them, but where do they come from? Turns out not from coal! Check out this episode to find out what conditions are needed for diamonds to form.
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TED: The surprising solution to ocean plastic | David Katz
Can we solve the problem of ocean plastic pollution and end extreme poverty at the same time? That's the ambitious goal of The Plastic Bank: a worldwide chain of stores where everything from school tuition to cooking fuel and more is...
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Diamond, the Super Crystal!
One of the strongest rocks in the world is one that you might not expect, and the story of how it formed deep under the earth is intense!
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9 Futuristic Materials
Learn about some materials that seem like they should belong in science fiction, but actually exist today! CHAPTERS View all AEROGELS 0:46 FLOWER UNAFFECTED BY FLAME Credit: NASA 1:25 INVISIBILITY CLOAKS 2:28 LOTUS LEAF Credit: Thomas...