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 ...

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

After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon ...

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

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

Chinese scientists have created the first-ever pure hexagonal diamond, a material that's tougher and harder than natural ...

“When love’s gone, they luster on,” sang Shirley Bassey in 1971’s "Diamonds Are Forever." Well, come 2026, that maxim might be truer—with researchers in China reporting that they have succeeded in ...

After decades of chasing after a rare hexagonal diamond, a Chinese team says their iteration of the elusive material is the most important yet. Reading time 3 minutes In 1962, researchers hypothesized ...

After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon. Diamond is famously known as the hardest mineral on Earth. But researchers have ...

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