For centuries, diamond has been the reigning champion of hardness on Earth. However, a recent breakthrough in material ...

Diamonds are one of the hardest naturally occurring substances on Earth, and while we've discovered minerals even stronger than diamonds, scientists may have just taken things a step further.

Alexander Fleming was doing experiments with bacteria when he woke up to a strange mold growing in his petri dish. The "mold ...

Pop quiz: what is the world’s hardest material? Answer: it’s diamond, of course. Thanks to the crystal structure of diamonds, with carbon atoms arranged into a lattice-like structure, diamond is top ...