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

With the right amount of pressure and surprisingly little heat, a substance found in fossil fuels can transform into pure diamond. It sounds like alchemy: take a clump of white dust, squeeze it in a ...

NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in Chem, provides a simple and reversible method for forming ...

Want to learn how to do a DIY ring clean? Here, we ask jewelry pros to give us the inside scoop on how to clean a diamond ring at home.

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...

To misquote a famous song, "Diamonds are industry's best friend." Cubic diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth and is used in everything from precision cutting tools to high-performance ...

Ski mountaineering, or “skimo,” will make its Olympic debut this week. The idea is simple: race uphill fast, then ski back ...

“These findings resolve the long-standing controversy on the existence of hexagonal diamond,” researchers said.

After decades of debates over the existence and properties of one of the world’s ...

Diamond cooling technology aims to reduce heat and energy pressure in AI data centers, giving operators more compute capacity from existing infrastructure.

Botswana used its mineral wealth to slash poverty. But now, lab-grown diamonds are threatening the future of its biggest ...