Have you ever wondered how those resplendent lab-grown gems are created? Buckle up because we're in for a deep dive, discussing some cool stuff about how those synthetic gemstones are made. Nowadays, ...

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 ...

H. Tracy Hall, 82, who earned a place among America's scientific wizards as a principal figure in the creation of artificial diamonds, died July 25 at his home in Provo, Utah. He had Alzheimer's ...

In brief: Chinese researchers have developed a synthetic diamond that is significantly harder and more resilient than those that occur naturally here on Earth. If commercially viable, the new diamond ...

Not to be confused with imitation diamonds, made from glass or plastic, lab-grown diamonds are real diamonds created in a laboratory using a sophisticated process. Lab-grown diamonds are often cheaper ...

Synthetic diamonds look indistinguishable — even to a trained eye — and cost substantially less than a mined diamond, and ...

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.

An influx of lab-grown diamonds in the jewellery market over the past 10 years has sparked a curious, and complicated, choice ...

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 world's largest diamond miner is doing the unthinkable: Selling stones produced in a laboratory. De Beers launched a new jewelry brand on Tuesday that features synthetic diamonds, a major reversal ...

Diamonds are losing their sparkle, at least for the stones dug out of the ground. The rapid development of lab-grown synthetic diamonds increasingly looks like it will deliver a death blow to diamond ...