Most natural and synthetic diamonds feature a cubic lattice structure but there are rare exceptions. Lonsdaleite, for example, is a type of diamond that was first ...

Chinese scientists have created an artificial “super diamond” much greater in hardness than real ones, an advance that could ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states – solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact many more phases, some of ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

In cities around the world, an intricate lattice of pipes connects homes ... Bardawil remembered the numbers falling: “One of the pipes goes down from 700 cubic meters per hour to zero. Other line—800 ...

Water isn't just liquid, ice, or vapor — under extreme conditions, it can transform into exotic phases, such as the newly observed plastic ice VII. This hybrid phase, predicted years ago but only ...

Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 ...

For the first time, researchers in China have synthetically produced a nearly pure hexagonal diamond, marking a significant ...