Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder.

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

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

Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its ...

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

Researchers in China have made what they claim to be the first samples of pure hexagonal diamond, a theorised rare variant of superstrong diamond found in meteorites from shattered dwarf planets, ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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 ...