Carbon comes in many different structures, most famously graphite and diamond. Other forms were predicted to exist at extremely high pressures, but now researchers have examined carbon under the ...

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 ideas in modern physics, a phase of matter that repeats in time instead of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...