Atoms on the surface of solid gold spontaneously arrange themselves in ways that prevent oxygen from tarnishing the metal, researchers have found 1. Gold is not completely inert, unlike, say, noble ...

Hexagonal lights resembling cyber-age honeycomb have caught on in male-oriented leisure spaces. Hexagonal LED lights have become something of a design phenomenon in the last 18 months and now define ...

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Diamond is famously known as the hardest mineral on Earth. But researchers have been pursuing an unusual variant of it — known as hexagonal diamond — that might be even harder. After decades of claims ...

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 ...

After decades of chasing after a rare hexagonal diamond, a Chinese team says their iteration of the elusive material is the most important yet. Reading time 3 minutes In 1962, researchers hypothesized ...

After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon. Diamond is famously known as the hardest mineral on Earth. But researchers have ...

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her joy. While some people would rather avoid snowflakes and the slippery roads ...

A mixture of two types of pigment-producing cells undergoes diffusiophoretic transport to self-assemble into a hexagonal pattern. Credit: Siamak Mirfendereski and Ankur Gupta/CU Boulder A zebra’s ...

A plain lump of graphite has never looked so ambitious. By squeezing and heating it under brutal conditions, researchers in Beijing have coaxed carbon atoms to line up in an elusive hexagonal pattern ...