At Rice University, a research lab's signature keepsake has helped perfect a method for growing patterned diamond surfaces ...

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 ...

Many things about diamonds seem eternal, including the many engineering problems related to making them work as a silicon ...

Settling a half century of debate, researchers have discovered that tiny linear defects can propagate through a material faster than sound waves do. These linear defects, or dislocations, are what ...

An unexpected discovery surprised a scientist: nanometer-sized diamond particles, which were intended for a completely different purpose, shone brightly in a magnetic resonance imaging experiment -- ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, scientists have successfully synthesized an elusive type of diamond that is predicted to be 50% harder than traditional diamonds found on Earth. This remarkable feat, ...

The Earth needs to chill and showering it in bling could be the way to do it. Scientists are interested in depositing diamond dust into the atmosphere in order to reflect sunlight and cool down the ...