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

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With the right amount of pressure and surprisingly little heat, a substance found in fossil fuels can transform into pure diamond. It sounds like alchemy: take a clump of white dust, squeeze it in a ...

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NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in Chem, provides a simple and reversible method for forming ...

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Diamonds are clear, crystallised, highly pure forms of carbon that form at depths of 90-120 miles beneath the surface of the Earth, under intense pressure and heat, usually 1-3 billion years ago. The ...