A supercomputer has worked out how to make the strongest material on ... exoplanets may give rise to structural forms of carbon such as diamond and BC8,” said Ivan Oleynik, a physics professor ...

Diamonds are made out of carbon — highly organized carbon, that is. Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the Earth from 1 billion to 3 billion years ago.

From there, Algordanza uses the same tools Mother Nature uses to make diamonds: heat and pressure. In the next step, the carbon ashes are converted into graphite, a stable allotrope of carbon in ...