After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon ...
Atomic structure of the hexagonal diamond. Image from the study. Researchers named it lonsdaleite, after crystallographer ...
Scientists created a pure hexagonal diamond in the lab, confirming a long-debated carbon structure slightly harder than natural diamonds.
From Plato’s search for hidden forms to Bernoulli’s law of large numbers and Markov’s breakthrough on dependent events, this story traces how mathematicians discovered the patterns hidden inside ...