Archaeologists working in southern Siberia have identified the oldest directly dated physical evidence of psychoactive cannabis consumption, dating to the early eighth century B.C. The discovery, stemming from analytical innovation applied to preserved organic materials, connects nearly 1,000 seeds with chemical traces found directly in human hair from a royal burial mound.
Diamond Foundry produced a 200-millimeter single-crystal diamond disk in an unpolished state, presenting the material on November 6 as the result of a 25-year research effort. The San Francisco company developed the continuous crystal to help pull heat away from high-performance microchips, particularly processors handling intensive artificial intelligence computations. Measuring 7.9 inches across, the monolithic sample represents a major technical invention in synthetic diamond synthesis.
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