Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists report creating pure hexagonal diamond, resolving a long debate about the rare meteorite mineral lonsdaleite. (CREDIT: ...

For a long time, scientists associated crystal structures with an ordered arrangement of atoms in a repeating lattice-like pattern, believing it to be the most stable configuration. However, by the ...

A harder form of diamond that has eluded scientists for decades can now be synthesised in the laboratory, and could be used to make extremely tough cutting and drilling tools. Diamonds as we know them ...

For the first time, researchers have hard evidence that human-made hexagonal diamonds are stiffer than cubic diamonds found in nature and often used in jewelry. Hexagonal diamonds have been found at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists report creating pure hexagonal diamond, resolving a long debate about the rare meteorite mineral lonsdaleite. (CREDIT: ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...