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 ...

Physicists have taken a gemstone better known for engagement rings and turned it into a laboratory for one of the strangest ideas in modern physics, a phase of matter that repeats in time instead of ...

Using atomic-scale defects in diamond, researchers in China have gained unprecedented insights into the complex chemical ...

What started as a fun experiment to create a decorative diamond “owl” for distinguished ...

An unexpected discovery surprised a scientist: nanometer-sized diamond particles, which were intended for a completely different purpose, shone brightly in a magnetic resonance imaging experiment -- ...

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 ...

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 ...