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

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new way to ...

Virtual apertures let researchers isolate and solve atomic structures from individual nanocrystals embedded in dense clusters ...

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 ...

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

A meteorite chip sat in a small container, bathed in liquid, while the International Space Station floated overhead. Inside, ...

A research team led by Sun Jian at Nanjing University has produced recoverable, millimeter-sized crystals of hexagonal diamond, a rare carbon polymorph that prior theoretical work has suggested could ...

Phosphate rock is a strategically critical non-renewable resource, underpinning global food security and numerous industrial ...

A newly mapped form of superconductivity in uranium ditelluride emerges only under extremely strong magnetic fields, defying ...