Box office bling: 10 highest-grossing films ever. Film fans and the entertainment press have turned the game of box-office watching into a national sport. We report on the weekend grosses for new releases and sites even allow you to predict the winners and losers. Of course, there's a lot of money at stake. Just look at the list of top-grossing movies; the biggest movies raked in billions of dollars. World all-time box office:
Nano-material is harder than diamonds By Will Knight A material that is harder than diamond has been created in the lab, by packing together tiny ânanorodsâ of carbon. The new material, known as aggregated carbon nanorods (ACNR), was created by compressing and heating super-strong carbon molecules called buckyballs or carbon-60.
If you thought the hardest substance on earth was diamond, that was a good, if inaccurate guess. It is technically an aggregated diamond nanorod. It is actually a collection of nano-scale diamonds, and it is the least compressible, hardest substance known to man.