They don’t make them like they used to — at all. It can take natural diamonds over three billion years to grow, but researchers in a South Korean lab have successfully fabricated the precious stones ...

Diamonds are made out of carbon — highly organized carbon, that is. Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the ...

Diamonds in nature famously form under immense pressure in Earth’s mantle. But a new laboratory technique allows diamonds to skip the squeeze. The most common method for producing synthetic diamonds, ...

According to the experts, there is no way for the average person to differentiate a natural from a lab-grown diamond. If you’ve bought a piece of fine jewelry containing a diamond in recent years, you ...

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A 37-carat diamond, half pink and half colorless, found in Botswana, intrigues scientists due to its two-stage origin and rare purity.

A giant pink diamond found in Lesotho surprises the market: 108 carats, extreme purity, and a value that could reach tens of ...

Food and diamonds usually intersect only in the hyper-opulent realm populated by the likes of the world's most luxurious cake decorated with thousands of diamonds, or the most expensive drinking ...

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Diamonds form deep within the Earth's mantle, around 250 kilometers below the surface, where immense pressure (up to 10 GPa) and temperatures (around 2,200 °C) compress carbon into diamonds over ...