In nature, diamonds form deep in the Earth over billions of years. This process requires environments with exceptionally high pressure and temperatures exceeding 1,000℃. Our international team ...

Researchers have succeeded in creating a rare type of diamond, known as lonsdaleite or hexagonal diamond. This material, ...

Today's Internet runs on linked silicon chips, but a future quantum version might be built from diamond crystals. Physicists report today in Nature 1 that they have entangled information kept in ...

In nature, diamonds form in geologic crucibles where pressure can be 50,000 times higher than at sea level. Temperatures soar to over 1,500˚C.

The team also includes researchers at RMIT University and their results provide strong evidence for how this form of diamond can form in nature, and potentially even be created for industrial ...

Diamonds Unearthed In the first installment of a multi-part series, Smithsonian diamond expert Jeffrey Post explains how the rare crystals form ...

Smithsonian diamond expert Jeffrey Post discusses conflict diamonds, colored diamonds and synthetic gems grown in the lab ...

It follows that, if carbon can be crystallised at comparatively low temperatures, the minimum pressure sufficing to determine the diamond form will be lower than that employed in M. Moissan's ...

Where blue diamonds come from is a question that’s eluded scientists for centuries. But now, secrets of the scarcest stones in the world are coming to the surface.

This unique crystallized water was found in the form of inclusions (impurities) in diamonds, which formed deep inside the Earth and were slowly pushed upwards over time.