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Researchers from China have created the elusive and incredibly rare hexagonal diamond, a material that could outshine natural diamond in hardness and resilience. Published in Nature on March 4, 2026, ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...

Chinese scientists claim to have created the long theorised hexagonal diamond, stronger than the real thing, and only found until now at sites of meteorite impacts. The commonly found cubic diamond is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists create first-of-its-kind ‘hexagonal diamond’ harder than real thing Chinese scientists claim to have created the long ...

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After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon ...