Molten carbon can form into either diamond or graphite. A new study shows how graphite can sometimes form even under conditions that should lead to diamond. (Getty Images) The graphite found in your ...

Scientists from the University of Tokyo and their collaborators have created a new approach to forming artificial diamonds that offers surprising advantages. By carefully preparing carbon-based ...

Chinese scientists claim to have created the long theorised hexagonal diamond, stronger than the real thing, and only found ...

The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the difference? Researchers are finding out. How molten carbon crystallizes into ...

Chinese scientists claim to have created the long theorised hexagonal diamond, stronger than the real thing, and only found until now at sites of meteorite impacts. The commonly found cubic diamond is ...

Molten carbon can crystallize into diamond or graphite, but it has been difficult to study this process. New simulations show that graphite can sometimes "hijack" the pathway that would lead to ...