Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Earth simply wouldn’t be the home planet we know and love without ...

Physicists have taken a gemstone better known for engagement rings and turned it into a laboratory for one of the strangest ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Miners digging for diamonds in the 1980s in Botswana’s Orapa mine ...

Brittle diamond can turn flexible and stretchable when made into ultrafine needles, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered. Diamond is well-known as the strongest of all natural materials, ...

A diamond forged deep within Earth's interior held an unexpected discovery locked inside: a mineral never before seen in nature and one that cannot normally exist on the planet's surface. The mineral, ...

Diamond is the hardest material in nature. It also has great potential as an excellent electronic material. A research team has demonstrated for the first time the large, uniform tensile elastic ...

Dr Adrian Mancuso, a well-known figure and leading scientist in the light sources’ community has been appointed as the new Physical Science Director for the UK’s national synchrotron, Diamond Light ...

An exceedingly rare gem known as a Matryoshka diamond has been unearthed by miners in Russia. The diamond, named for its resemblance to traditional Russian nesting dolls, was discovered in Yakutia at ...

Geologists have studied tiny pockets of fluids trapped inside diamonds to get a better understanding of how old humanity’s favorite rocks might be. In doing so, they identified three distinct periods ...

A new kind of artificial diamond is a cut above the rest for quantum memory. Qubit-storing diamond defects are typically made with nitrogen atoms, which can store quantum data for milliseconds — a ...

At prestigious International Science Conference, a socio-economic impact of over £2.6 billion on UK science and economy revealed from UK Synchrotron Presenting at the prestigious International ...