This breakthrough occurred while the team was studying diamond formation from hydrocarbons under extreme pressure and heat.

The brilliantly shiny diamond is more than just pretty; it's one of the hardest minerals on Earth, with a name derived from ...

Natural diamond, seen here, has a cubic packing structure. But a much rarer form of diamond has hexagonal packing and has now ...

Ordinary diamonds have a cubic lattice, but hexagonal diamonds have carbon atoms bonded in a hexagonally symmetric ...

Serendipitously and for the first time, an international research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory formed solid binary gold hydride, a ...

What happens when matter is squeezed so harshly that the rules of chemistry and physics seem to collapse? Deep below the biggest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, hydrogen the most primitive and ...

Hydrogen (like many of us) acts weird under pressure. Theory predicts that when crushed by the weight of more than a million times our atmosphere, this light, abundant, normally gaseous element ...

In this case, they subjected three particle sizes of silicon – 1 millionth of a meter, 30 billionths of a meter and 100 billionths of a meter – to the unique strains of the rotational diamond anvil ...

Researchers from Japan and Taiwan reveal for the first time that helium, usually considered chemically inert, can bond with iron under high pressures. They used a laser-heated diamond anvil cell ...