To synthesize the crystals, the team compressed highly ordered pyrolytic graphite to pressures as high as 20 gigapascals, roughly 200,000 times the atmospheric pressure at Earth’s surface.

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder.

An 11th-grade student from India, Shambhavi Das, has clinched the Best STEM Presentation Award at Columbia University's International Young Researchers’ Conference 2025. Her groundbreaking study on ...

If you think “instantaneous” happens in a second, you should meet Haiwang Yong. An assistant professor of chemistry at the ...

A research team led by Sun Jian at Nanjing University has produced recoverable, millimeter-sized crystals of hexagonal diamond, a rare carbon polymorph that prior theoretical work has suggested could ...

Chinese scientists claim to have created the long theorised hexagonal diamond, stronger than the real thing, and only found ...

Honoring Rosalind Franklin: the overlooked pioneer whose vital contributions to DNA research reshaped science and women's legacy.

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CEO Neil Kumar discussed the company’s late-stage pipeline, commercial execution priorities, and the evolving transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) market in a conversation with Barclays ...

Tusker Minerals flags high-grade rutile at Malawi’s Mzimba, with samples up to 1.88% TiO2; XRD confirms rutile dominance, no ilmenite, exploration planned.

Researchers have developed a PFAS-free dual-layer sol-gel and hydrophobic silica coating that repels water, dust, and dirt while maintaining high light transmission for solar panels. The transparent, ...

Researchers characterized two moisture-swing polymers for direct air capture, finding that macropore structure governs CO2 sorption capacity and kinetics.