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 ...

Researchers named it lonsdaleite, after crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale, but for decades, no one was sure it truly existed. For 60 years, the material had only been reported in meteorite impact ...

Like many of you, we’ve been watching the horrifying developments in the Middle East. As the war with Iran causes violence to spread around the region, nobody knows how long this conflict will last.

Tiny diamond particles can help fabric release heat—and despite being diamonds, they’re surprisingly affordable to make. On a hot day, most clothing traps heat. But fabric coated with ...

Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its ...

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 ...

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

A research team co-led by Professor Yang Lu from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), and Professor Chengming Li from the Institute for ...

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To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our earth isn't the center of the universe but merely one of billions of heavenly bodies. From biology we learned ...