The future of our spacecraft could all come down to diamonds. While diamonds are often regarded as one of the hardest materials in existence, these hard gems, more specifically radioactive diamonds, ...

Researchers named it lonsdaleite, after crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale, but for decades, no one was sure it truly existed. For 60 years, the material had only been reported in meteorite impact ...

For centuries, diamond has been the reigning champion of hardness on Earth. However, a recent breakthrough in material science has led to the synthesis of a new substance, predicted to be 50 percent ...

Settling a half century of debate, researchers have discovered that tiny linear defects can propagate through a material faster than sound waves do. These linear defects, or dislocations, are what ...

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The Earth needs to chill and showering it in bling could be the way to do it. Scientists are interested in depositing diamond dust into the atmosphere in order to reflect sunlight and cool down the ...

Investment from BBSRC will secure a state-of-the-art, ultra-fast X-ray integrating detector for probing very fast processes within proteins and other macromolecules Part of the BBSRC ALERT programme ...