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

Traditional diamond anvil cells are capable of generating pressure levels of between 320 and 360 Gpa, which are roughly 3 million times that of the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the Earth ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A new study could mark a shift in our dependence on rare earth metals to simple iron oxide for all our future devices and ...

Despite decades of effort, humans have only drilled 0.2% into Earth’s crust. Heat, pressure, and flowing rock make reaching ...

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 ...