These Diamonds Are Definitely Not Forever

In a white industrial building in the rolling hills of the English countryside 16 miles from Oxford, silver machines shaped like spaceships hum inside vast laboratories. They are replicating the extreme pressure and temperatures found deep in the earth’s crust and producing, in mere weeks, what historically nature managed only over billions of years: flawless diamonds.

"These Diamonds Are Definitely Not Forever" is from the May 29, 2018 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Elizabeth Paton and Vanessa Friedman and narrated by Fleet Cooper.