A remarkable pink diamond, thought to have once belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, has recently been ...

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Diamonds might be forever but that doesn't stop them being bought and sold. One stone thought to have once belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, has just sold for US$14 million (£10 ...

Oxides exhibit an amazing series of crystal frameworks, consisting of easy binary forms like alumina (Al ₂ O FOUR) and silica ...

Scientists use scanning tunneling microscopy to understand how a material's electronic or magnetic properties relate to its ...

As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks.

The present state of our knowledge of the elements of atomic structure was reached, however, by the discovery of the atomic nucleus, which we owe to Rutherford, whose work on the radioactive ...

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