Researchers have synthesized millimetre-scale hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure so elusive that many physicists doubted ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder.

A Chinese research team has produced bulk hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure long theorized to be harder than ...

Diamond is famously known as the hardest mineral on Earth. “There are hundreds of claims from people who believe they have ...

Atomic structure of the hexagonal diamond. Image from the study. Researchers named it lonsdaleite, after crystallographer ...

“These findings resolve the long-standing controversy on the existence of hexagonal diamond,” researchers said.

Researchers in China have made what they claim to be the first samples of pure hexagonal diamond, a theorised rare variant of ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists report creating pure hexagonal diamond, resolving a long debate about the rare meteorite mineral lonsdaleite. (CREDIT: ...