Diamonds, among the hardest materials in the world, are formed from millions of years of geological pressure and must be extracted from mines deep in the earth. But stones with the same chemical ...

Advances in magnetic imaging have contributed immensely to medical science. From the brain to the heart, the bodies of humans and animals generate weak magnetic fields that techniques such as magnetic ...

The process of creating a diamond naturally takes between 1 and 3.3 billion years. Conversely, a lab-grown diamond can now be created in 150 minutes. But despite being an ethical and ...

Bingbing Liu is at the State Key Laboratory of High Pressure and Superhard Materials, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012 China. Finding a method for synthesizing diamond was no ...

One day in February 1955, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, then board chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., received shocking news. General Electric Co. had succeeded in making a synthetic diamond.

Diamond marketing is surely one of the PR industry’s biggest coups: you take a rareish natural mineral from the ground, cut it, polish it to a sheen and sell it for fantastical amounts because, as a ...

Japan is stepping ahead of the world in the use of synthetic diamonds to power next-gen semiconductors, offering performance in orders of magnitude beyond current materials, and it's getting closer to ...

Advancement marks pivotal move toward diamond-based quantum devices that will accelerate IonQ’s roadmap toward scalable, fault-tolerant quantum systems IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the leader in the quantum ...

The process of creating a diamond naturally takes between 1 and 3.3 billion years. Conversely, a lab-grown diamond can now be created in 150 minutes. But despite being an ethical and ...