The Marie-Thérèse Pink, thought to have belonged to Marie Antoinette, was auctioned by Christie’s in New York.

A new study led by researchers at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester has achieved a major advance in ...

A rare and bewildering intermediate between crystal and glass can be the most stable arrangement for some combinations of ...

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Not only does it appear to be harder than its close carbonaceous cousin, diamond ... their non-homogenous crystal lattice could be "expected to possess novel physical, chemical, mechanical ...

Chemists have developed a generative AI model that ... different crystal structures and physical properties, even though their chemical composition is the same. Graphite and diamond -- both ...

Weighing in at 555.55 carats, or 111.11 grams, the carbonado diamond called the Enigma ... which could have damaged the diamonds' crystal lattice structure and darkened the diamonds' color as ...

Carbon is one of the most fascinating elements in all of nature, with chemical ... crystal lattice — a tetrahedral one instead of a face-centered cubic one — that is 18% harder than diamond ...

Then, electron irradiation caused individual carbon atoms to detach from the diamond’s perfect crystal lattice. The resulting defects arranged themselves next to the nitrogen atoms, creating a ...

This news release is available in German. Diamonds are highly sought after as jewelry and as a form of capital investment. They are also prized by the research community, but not because of their ...