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Mareta Percival. Struggling after the death of her daughter in the Christchurch earthquakes, Mareta reluctantly takes on a role as a substitute teacher at an elite private school and is surprised to find children in desperate need of guidance, inspiration, and love.
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Guardian: Flow wins best animated feature Oscar
The dialogue-free film, which debuted at the Cannes film festival, triumphed in a category that included the higher-profile blockbusters Inside Out 2 and The Wild Robot. It is the first Latvian film to ever be nominated for an Oscar.
The story follows the journey of a cat who must find safety after its home is devastated by a flood.
The director Gints Zilbalodis started production back in 2019 using the free and open-source software Blender. It is his second full-length feature after 2019’s Away.
ScienceAlert: Physicists Create Lab-Grown Diamond Even Harder Than Natural
Diamond is well-known for being the hardest natural material on Earth, though synthetic forms have been developed that are even tougher – a feat that researchers have managed again, through a new approach to diamond formation.
The team put graphite (another super-hard material) under an intense amount of pressure, before heating it to 1,800 K (that’s 1,527 °C or 2,780 °F). The resulting diamond has a hexagonal lattice crystal structure, rather than the normal cubic structure.
Hexagonal diamond (or lonsdaleite) was first brought to the attention of scientists more than 50 years ago, after it was discovered in a meteorite impact site. The new research is the first solid evidence that this internal structure boosts hardness.
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The research has been published in Nature Materials.
Last Updated: 02.Mar.2025 23:58 EST
