A team of Chinese scientists may have cracked the secret behind the strange Canyon Diablo diamonds. Hexagonal in form rather than cubic, the process behind how these diamonds formed has, until now, ...

New research indicates that a rare form of diamond may originate in the burbling cores of distant worlds, arriving on Earth thanks to violent cosmic collisions. According to a team of scientists in ...

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Researchers have used a diamond sheet and salt film to make hexagonal salt crystals. Sodium chloride is massively common in our universe, but still full of surprises. The scientists used a ...