Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its material properties to show it's harder than diamond. When you purchase ...

After decades of chasing after a rare hexagonal diamond, a Chinese team says their iteration of the elusive material is the most important yet. Reading time 3 minutes In 1962, researchers hypothesized ...

To misquote a famous song, "Diamonds are industry's best friend." Cubic diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth and is used in everything from precision cutting tools to high-performance ...

Cindy Ware of Chester County realized a couple of months ago that the diamond from her ring, passed down through her late husband's family, was gone. "I still don't believe it. It's in my purse now ...

The United States may feel like it’s on the brink of a civil war led by its own government, but one thing Americans seem to agree on in our nation’s bisesquicentennial year is the peaceful, easy ...

De Beers reportedly cut rough diamond prices in January, a rare retreat by the industry’s once-dominant broker as slumping demand, lab-grown stones and trade turmoil batter the global diamond market.

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year. Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward ...

Last fall, the jewelry designer Kindred Lubeck took an elevator up six floors to a high-end showroom in New York’s diamond district. She was buzzed inside a fluorescent-lit vestibule, then waited; the ...

One of the bonuses of making "Song Sung Blue" filled with Neil Diamond songs is how astonishingly prolific the globally beloved singer-songwriter was during his five decades of recording and ...

Before he was the guy leading stadiums full of fans through the chorus of "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond was a kid in Brooklyn writing song lyrics while bored in class. Diamond's expansive songwriting ...

Blue Diamond will close Sacramento plant by mid-2027, cutting 600 jobs. Cooperative shifts processing to Turlock and Salida to protect grower pay. City faces 53-acre redevelopment question balancing ...