When most people think about the hardest naturally occurring material on Earth, they think of diamonds - those pretty stones in our engagement rings that can cut steel and rock.
But scientists have been gradually improving on that toughness over the past few years, and now a team of Australian researchers has just created a rare type of diamond that's even harder than diamond.
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