In The News: College of Sciences

CNN Indonesia

Scientists have found an unprecedented sample of a rare diamond from the bowels of the Earth called davemaoite.

CNN

In just five years, Lin Fei-fan went from charging into Taiwan's legislature and occupying the building with hundreds of students to a senior job for the island's ruling party.

Sunday Standard

All eyes are expected to focus on Botswana after a diamond that was unearthed from Orapa mines has the scientific community in the Unites States talking not because of its size or color but its mineral composition.

Epoch Times

Scientists discovered an unprecedented mineral in a diamond.

SciTech Daily

For the first time, a high-pressure calcium silicate perovskite (CaSiO3) has been identified as a naturally occurring mineral from Earth’s lower mantle, researchers report.

Scientific American

Twenty years after their initial detection, enigmatic blasts from the sky are starting to deliver tentative answers, as well as plenty of science.

Freethink

Until now, researchers believed the mineral could never be found on the earth's surface.

Inverse

When Oliver Tschauner and colleagues dusted off a sample of volcano-ejected diamond found in a South African mine, they had no idea that they were holding the first-ever natural sample of a new high-pressure mineral from deep within Earth.

Chemical & Engineering News

Study suggests that certain organic compounds in soil could make asbestos fibers more mobile.

National Jeweler

Davemaoite isn’t found in nature because it can’t survive outside the high-pressure environment of Earth’s mantle.

Knowridge Science Report

Scientists have discovered a new mineral on the surface of the Earth. There’s just one catch: it shouldn’t be here.

NPR

Researchers say they've recovered a mineral from deep inside the Earth — one they thought would never see the light of day.