After decades of chasing after a rare hexagonal diamond, a Chinese team says their iteration of the elusive material is the ...

An international research team has produced a bulk, millimeter-scale hexagonal diamond in the laboratory, a crystal variant long theorized to rival or exceed the hardness of the cubic diamonds found ...

After decades of debates over the existence and properties of one of the world’s ...

After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon.

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 ...

Diamond stands up to a squeeze. Surprisingly, the material’s structure persists even when compressed to 2 trillion pascals, more than five times the pressure in Earth’s core, scientists report January ...

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 ...