New research indicates that a rare form of diamond may originate in the burbling cores of distant worlds, arriving on Earth thanks to violent cosmic collisions. According to a team of scientists in ...

Scientists have created the first sizable meteorite diamond — also known as lonsdaleite or hexagonal diamond — a material predicted to be even harder than the diamonds normally found on Earth. The ...

Pop quiz: what is the world’s hardest material? Answer: it’s diamond, of course. Thanks to the crystal structure of diamonds, with carbon atoms arranged into a lattice-like structure, diamond is top ...

Scientists found something unexpected inside a meteorite that hit Earth 50,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While ...

The mantle has three to five times more carbon than researchers would expect based on the proportion of elements in stars and other planets. The diamonds found in this layer of Earth might explain the ...

Gas-jet deposition has emerged as a highly promising technique for the synthesis of diamond structures, employing high-velocity gas streams to activate and transport precursor species under controlled ...

From brilliant blues to fiery reds, discover how nature crafts diamonds in every color, and why some shades are rarer than the rest Emma Saaty Selections from the Winston Fancy Color Diamond ...

A new study in Nano-Micro Letters by scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China and the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science reports a major leap in photodetector ...

Experts at a laboratory in Botswana managed by the Gemological Institute of America recently examined an extraordinary natural diamond with two distinct color zones. When you purchase through links on ...