Physicists have taken a gemstone better known for engagement rings and turned it into a laboratory for one of the strangest ...

A SLAC-Stanford study reveals exactly what it takes for diamond to crystallize around a "seed" cluster of atoms. The results apply to industrial processes and to what happens in clouds overhead ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? The paradigm may be changing for how to grow diamonds in a lab. Current methods ...

Jeweler Harry Winston donated the famous Hope Diamond—the largest-known deep blue diamond in the world—to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958. It arrived in a plain brown package by registered mail, ...

When we talk about crystals around here, we’re generally talking about the quartz variety used to make oscillators more stable, or perhaps ruby crystals used to make a laser. We hardly ever talk about ...

Not to be confused with imitation diamonds, made from glass or plastic, lab-grown diamonds are real diamonds created in a laboratory using a sophisticated process. Lab-grown diamonds are often cheaper ...

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Using a diamond as a quantum simulator, scientists created a rondeau time crystal, which exhibited both long-range temporal ...