Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...

For the first time, researchers in China have synthetically produced a nearly pure hexagonal diamond, marking a significant ...

Chinese scientists have created an artificial “super diamond” much greater in hardness than real ones, an advance that could ...

Researchers have explored a 'quantum-inspired' technique to make the 'ones' and 'zeroes' for classical computer memory applications out of crystal defects, each the size of an individual atom. This ...

A recent study by Dr. Albert Jambon and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, revealed the presence of meteoric iron in Early Iron Age ornaments in Poland.

The first ultra-hard diamond was found in the Canyon Diablo meteorite in Arizona in 1967. Scientists have struggled to recreate lonsdaleite in the laboratory but now, a team of Chinese researchers ...

Data storage has always depended on systems that toggle between "on" and "off" states. However, the physical size of the components storing these binary states has ...

Meteorites are quite rare since most materials in space never come anywhere near the Earth, and of those that do come toward ...

The material withstands 58 percent more stress than diamonds, and could have "remarkable mechanical properties".

In a recent review article published in the journal Minerals, researchers focused on the recent discoveries of high-pressure ...