Molten carbon can form into either diamond or graphite. A new study shows how graphite can sometimes form even under conditions that should lead to diamond. (Getty Images) The graphite found in your ...

A Chinese research team has produced bulk hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure long theorized to be harder than ...

Converting graphite into diamond has been a long held dream of alchemists the world over. In the modern era, materials scientists have puzzled over this process because it’s hard to work out why the ...

Scientists created a pure hexagonal diamond in the lab, confirming a long-debated carbon structure slightly harder than ...

In brief: Chinese researchers have developed a synthetic diamond that is significantly harder and more resilient than those that occur naturally here on Earth. If commercially viable, the new diamond ...

Pressure makes diamonds, but according to recent findings, there may also be a much quicker, hassle-free way. A team of researchers at Stanford University has stumbled upon a new way of turning ...

Diamond is famously known as the hardest mineral on Earth. “There are hundreds of claims from people who believe they have ...