Researchers have pioneered a method to detect buried kimberlite, a diamond-associated rock, by studying microbial DNA in surface soil. This offers a non-invasive way to…
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Ancient superdeep diamonds from Brazil and Western Africa, formed between 650 and 450 million years ago beneath the supercontinent Gondwana, have offered new insights into…
The scientists discovered evidence of water hundreds of kilometers deep. An international research team led by a Goethe University professor analyzes diamond inclusions. The boundary…
Scientists have discovered that much more carbon exists in the mantle than predicted. Researchers find rust and diamonds at the Earth’s core-mantle boundary. On the…
Professor Andy Tomkins (left) from Monash University with RMIT University PhD scholar Alan Salek and a ureilite meteor sample. Credit: RMIT University Strange diamonds from…
This image offers an abstract visual representation of graphene oxide sheets (black layers) embedded with nanodiamonds (bright white points). The nanodiamonds exert long range electrostatic…
There might be a quadrillion tons of diamonds 100 miles below Earth’s surface. But the farthest we’ve traveled is 7 miles down, so how could…
Instrumentation setup in the Quantum Engineering Group at MIT to study dynamical symmetries with qubits in diamond crystals. Credit: Guoqing Wang/MIT MITMIT is an acronym…
One of the 2.7 billion year-old diamonds used in this work. Credit: Michael Broadley A unique study of ancient diamonds has shown that the basic…
This cartoon shows a subducting oceanic plate traveling like a conveyor belt from the surface down to the lower mantle. The white arrows show the…
Electron beamlets as observed on YAG screens at varying distances from a cathode source. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Beam-driven wakefield acceleration approaches are promising candidates…
A photoconductive switch made from a synthetic, chemical vapor deposition diamond under test. Credit: LLNL When it comes to the semiconductor industry, silicon has reigned…
The RMIT team’s pictures showed that the regular diamonds only form in the middle of these Lonsdaleite veins under this new method developed by the…
Diamond could conduct electricity like metals when it is deformed to strains at the nanoscale, according to predictions from a study by an international team…
Professor Somnath Bhattacharyya next to the vapor deposition chamber that is used to produce diamonds in the lab. Credit: Wits University The discovery of triplet…
Researchers have discovered a way to transform the electronic properties of nanoscale needles of diamond. Credit: MIT News Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic…
Diamonds from Kankan, Guinea, analyzed in this study The imperfections inside the diamond are small inclusions of a mineral called ferropericlase, which is from the…
Artist’s impression of the collision of two protoplanets. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook International research team solves theory of how diamonds formed inside protoplanets. Geoscientists from Goethe…
An analysis of the first large diamonds confirmed to come from deep under the Earth’s surface supports initial predictions showing that the Smithsonian’s famous Hope…
Diamond’s physical properties make it a valuable material for medicine, industry, quantum computing technologies and biological sensing. With the right amount of pressure and surprisingly…