An international team of geologists has found highly oxidized iron, similar to the rust we see on the Earth’s surface, in diamond’s garnet inclusions...
A new experiment at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory reveals how large diamonds may be formed from just hydrogen and carbon in the deep interior of...
Thanks to a breakthrough by a research team led by University of California Berkeley physicist Norman Yao, time crystals are now a reality.
Following a...
Researchers are reporting development of the world’s thinnest electrical wires, made of chalcogenide and diamondoids (the smallest possible bits of diamond)....
New research in the journal Science explains how diamonds of exceptional size and quality formed — from metallic liquid deep inside Earth’s mantle.
World’s...
A team of material scientists in the United States has discovered a novel allotrope of carbon, Q-carbon.
Nucleation of microdiamond from nanodiamond filaments...
Diamond formation in the very deep Earth may be a more common process than previously thought, according to a new study in the journal Nature Communications.
Diamonds....
A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector that could lead to smaller devices...
A golf-ball sized chunk of rock with at least 30,000 diamonds has been found in the Udachnaya diamond mine in Yakutia, according to a team of scientists...
A newly discovered white dwarf, which is a companion to the nearby pulsar PSR J2222-0137, is so cool that its carbon has crystallized, forming a giant...
According to scientists at Rice University, a material called carbyne will be the strongest material if and when anyone can make it in bulk.
Nanorods or...
A mysterious black pebble found by an Egyptian geologist at the Libyan Desert Glass strewnfield provides the first ever evidence of a comet entering Earth’s...
Scientists from Singapore and Belgium have successfully altered the properties of water, making it corrosive enough to etch diamonds.
Diamond particles...
Yale researchers have discovered that a rocky super-Earth orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet.
This illustration shows the interior of 55 Cancri...
Scientists from Britain and Australia have discovered a previously unrecognized volcanic process, similar to one that is used in chocolate manufacturing,...
