Diamond is celebrated as one of the hardest materials known, but new research shows that even its famously rigid structure ...

Rice University researchers have developed a way to stabilize diamond during high-temperature and low-pressure processing, ...

The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the difference? Researchers are finding out. How molten carbon crystallizes into ...

In brief: Chinese researchers have developed a synthetic diamond that is significantly harder and more resilient than those that occur naturally here on Earth. If commercially viable, the new diamond ...