A Chinese research team has produced bulk hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure long theorized to be harder than ...

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 ...

Researchers have synthesized millimetre-scale hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure so elusive that many physicists doubted ...

After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon ...

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Researchers in China have made what they claim to be the first samples of pure hexagonal diamond, a theorised rare variant of ...

Chinese scientists claim to have created the long theorised hexagonal diamond, stronger than the real thing, and only found ...

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 ...

“When love’s gone, they luster on,” sang Shirley Bassey in 1971’s "Diamonds Are Forever." Well, come 2026, that maxim might be truer—with researchers in China reporting that they have succeeded in ...

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 ...