Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa — As word spread that there were diamonds to be found beneath the soil in a tiny, rural village in South Africa's Kwa-Zulu Natal region, thousands of people descended with ...

The hopes of thousands who rushed to a rural South African village last week in search of diamonds have been crushed, after government officials said Sunday that the stones were only quartz, which ...

JOHANNESBURG, June 20 (Reuters) - Unidentified stones that lured thousands of fortune seekers to a rural South African village to mine the land with picks and shovels were not diamonds as hoped, ...

The high-quality, single crystal diamond made possible by the new process has a wide variety of applications in science and technology, such as the use of diamond crystals as anvils in high-pressure ...

Since the first diamond photonic-bandgap structure was discovered 1, researchers have pursued the task of obtaining photonic crystals possessing larger bandgaps and/or structures with large bandgaps ...

Diamonds are formed from the same carbon atoms that also make up the soft graphite found in the centre of pencils. The difference between these two forms of carbon is the arrangement of the atoms The ...

(Nanowerk News) Synthetic diamond crystals are of interest to many industrial sectors. Their unique properties make them a suitable material for numerous applications including lenses for high-energy ...

The poet in me (and our illustrious editor knows I am a poet at heart) cries out that I first tell you that in ancient times, folks believed that quartz crystals were eternal ice sent by the heavenly ...