Diamonds in a meteorite that crashed into Earth years ago have now given scientists a glimpse into the universe's past. Recently, a team of scientists led by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland...
Scientists have uncovered a rare “super-deep” diamond in the Cullinan mine in South Africa's Gauteng province. Wrapped in this diamond is the mineral calcium silicate perovskite, the fourth-most abundant mineral found...
You may have heard that icy planets like Neptune and Uranus experience diamond rain. But now, scientists have been able to mimic conditions of those planets and observe diamond rain at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory...
A new form of carbon, called Q-carbon, has been discovered by researchers at North Carolina State University. The material is harder than diamond, and doesn't need to be subjected to extreme pressures or heat in order to...
"Diamonds are forever" might have been the title of a James Bond film, but that statement is actually very true: these sparkling little bits of ultra-compressed carbon are made of one of the hardest substances on...
Why do so many couples care where their diamonds come from? Maybe the best answer to that question is that many diamonds are tainted by bloodshed and violence...
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