This new diamond battery acts like a kind of solar panel, but instead of soaking in light, it captures fast-moving electrons ...

Diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth. This fact would likely pass muster at your local trivia night, but scientists ...

Scientists have unveiled a radioactive diamond battery that lasts over 5,000 years. Learn how it works, its uses, and when it ...

Diamond is well-known for being the hardest natural material on Earth, though synthetic forms have been developed that are even tougher – a feat that researchers have managed again, through a new ...

S cientists have found a way to encase carbon-14 inside a synthetic diamond, and by doing so, they discovered something very intriguing. When encased in a diamond, carbon-14 undergoes a process we ...

Graphyne is a crystalline form of carbon that is distinct from both diamond and graphite. Unlike diamond, where each atom ...

Diamonds may be forever, but are some other forms of carbon merely passing fads? Stuart Cantrill considers why carbon often seems to be a chemist's best friend. Although carbon is just one of the ...