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Encoded Bling: Diamonds Could Store Huge Amounts of DataDiamonds may decorate some of the most coveted pieces of bling, but these precious stones could one day have a more practical use: storing vast amounts of data.
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Primeval Diamonds Reveal Snapshot of Early Earth's Tumultuous HistoryPlate tectonics may have already been operating when Earth was just a baby, a chemical analysis of 3.5-billion-year-old diamonds reveals.
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Sea Ice: Ancient Oceans Birthed DiamondsDiamonds can form with the help of ancient saltwater, say researchers who have identified the gems from oceanic crust dating back as far as 200 million years ago.
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Strange Rock from Russia Contains 30,000 DiamondsThe most diamond-rich rock ever found was discovered in Russia's Udachnaya diamond mine.
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Space Diamonds in Gold Country: California Meteorite's Secrets RevealedA meteorite that crashed down in California's gold country is showing off treasures of a different sort: small diamonds that could tell scientists more about the insides of asteroids.
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New Synthetic Diamonds Are Hardest Gems Ever CreatedResearchers claim they've made artificial diamonds that are harder than any tested before; however, some dispute the claim.
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Using Lasers to Cut a Diamond Apart Atom by AtomOpinion One of great challenges of the 21st century has been to develop ways to manipulate matter on smaller and smaller dimensions.
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Whoops! Earth's Oldest 'Diamonds' Actually Polishing GritEvidence of Earth's first continents, 4.3-billion-year-old "diamonds" from Australia's Jack Hills, are actually fragments of polishing grit, a new study reports.
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Tiny Diamonds Levitate in Wild Physics Experiment
