Researchers have synthesized millimetre-scale hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure so elusive that many physicists doubted ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder.

If you think “instantaneous” happens in a second, you should meet Haiwang Yong. An assistant professor of chemistry at the ...

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

A team of researchers has reported the first laboratory synthesis and recovery of bulk hexagonal diamond, a crystal form long predicted to be harder than the conventional gems used in cutting tools ...

Scientists from China have claimed they might have found a mineral that is harder than the cubic diamond, which is known to the world as the hardest e.

Over the past century, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased dramatically. This rise has contributed ...

Over the past century, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased dramatically. This rise has contributed to global warming and led ...

Quantum physics overturned classical ideas by showing that matter behaves very differently at the smallest scales. One of its most surprising discoveries was wave-particle duality, the idea that ...

Crystallography lets scientists see materials as systems of ordered atoms, turning materials research into a predictive science. In revealing how atomic arrangements govern strength, conductivity, and ...