Have you ever wondered how those resplendent lab-grown gems are created? Buckle up because we're in for a deep dive, discussing some cool stuff about how those synthetic gemstones are made. Nowadays, ...

Diamonds, among the hardest materials in the world, are formed from millions of years of geological pressure and must be extracted from mines deep in the earth. But stones with the same chemical ...

A team of physicists, materials scientists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a colleague from Umeå University, in Sweden, has grown a diamond that is harder ...

One day in February 1955, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, then board chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., received shocking news. General Electric Co. had succeeded in making a synthetic diamond.

With more and more functionality being packed into an analog IC, and even the desire to incorporate power elements (MOSFETs, IGBTs, etc.) onto the die, we need to start thinking outside the box for ...

Marilyn Monroe once famously sang, “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend,” and that sentiment still appears to hold true – even if the diamonds aren’t real. Lab-grown diamonds, or synthetic diamonds ...

I'm in the market for a diamond ring, but given how hard it seems to be to find a diamond that is provably not a conflict diamond, I'm looking at synthetic diamonds. I've been doing some research on ...

The process of creating a diamond naturally takes between 1 and 3.3 billion years. Conversely, a lab-grown diamond can now be created in 150 minutes. But despite being an ethical and ...