The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the difference? Researchers are finding out. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Update: The authors have published a retraction of the paper described in this article. A new addition to the carbon family, pentadiamond, is predicted to be light like graphite, hard like diamond and ...

This illustration depicts a new technique that uses a pulsing laser to create synthetic nanodiamond films and patterns from graphite, with potential applications from biosensors to computer chips.