However, not all diamonds are created equal. Most natural and synthetic diamonds feature a cubic crystal structure, although scientists have long known of a rarer, potentially harder variety ...

Physicists have successfully created a lab-grown diamond with a hardness exceeding that of natural diamonds. By subjecting graphite to extreme pressure and heat, researchers synthesized a rare ...

Diamond is well-known for being the hardest natural material on Earth, though synthetic forms have been developed that are even tougher – a feat that researchers have managed again, through a new ...

Most natural and synthetic diamonds feature a cubic lattice structure but ... in the Canyon Diablo meteorite and boasts a hexagonal lattice structure. The lab-grown diamond in question is of ...

This synthetic creation possesses a hexagonal crystal form, which provides much greater strength compared to the cubic structure of most natural diamonds. The "super diamond" structure exhibits ...

Most natural and synthetic diamonds have a cubic structure but ultra-hard diamonds, also known as lonsdaleite, have a hexagonal crystal structure. Previously, the hardest diamonds were found only ...

As opposed to ice I’s hexagonal crystalline structure, ice VII has a cubic structure. Plastic ice VII has the same cubic structure as regular ice VII, but as the name suggests it’s a little ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary. When carbon is subjected to extreme ...

Interconnected materials containing networks are ubiquitous in the world around us—rubber, car tires, human and engineered tissues, woven sheets and chain mail armor. Engineers often want these ...