From brilliant blues to fiery reds, discover how nature crafts diamonds in every color, and why some shades are rarer than ...

one carat diamond, represents literally billions and billions of carbon atoms that all had to lock into place to form this very orderly crystalline structure. You mentioned that scientists don't ...

Diamond is one of the hardest materials known to man, but experts think it can be squashed into something even harder. The precious stone is a naturally occurring substance made of carbon crystals. It ...

Scientists have developed a new type of time crystal – called a time quasicrystal – that could lead to breakthroughs in ...

A big, beautiful diamond. Sure, it catches light like no other gem, and it's the hardest material on Earth, and it's worth an awful lot of money. But what is it really but a collection of ordinary ...

The majority of natural diamonds contain nitrogen atoms as impurities in their internal structure. These impurities produce a yellow or brown colour. Mike says, 'Because nitrogen is so widespread, it ...

A standard time crystal is a new phase of matter that features perpetual motion without expending energy. According to Chong ...