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

A rare two-coloured diamond has been discovered in Botswana, in southern Africa. The rough stone is half-pink and ...

A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that form in completely opposing chemical environments—a combination so unusual ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

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, ...

A study found that Australia's tectonic plates stretched, creating large deposits of pink diamonds. Pink diamonds are made under extreme pressure when two continents collide. The scientists hope that ...

Formed millions to billions of years ago, diamonds can shine light into the darkest and oldest parts of the Earth's mantle. The analysis of ancient, superdeep diamonds dug up from mines in Brazil and ...

The stone, unearthed at the Karowe mine in northeastern Botswana, is now under study by the Gemological Institute of America ...

Australian researchers made an intriguing announcement, claiming to have unveiled the elusive secret behind pink diamonds, renowned for their rarity and exquisite allure. This revelation could pave ...

Discover how scientists are creating flawless diamonds without heat or pressure. A new method uses electron beams to turn ...

The analysis of ancient, superdeep diamonds dug up from mines in Brazil and Western Africa, has exposed new processes of how continents evolved and moved during the early evolution of complex life on ...