Ice cubes float in water because they’re less dense than the liquid. But a newfound type of ice has a density nearly equal to what’s in your water glass, researchers report in the Feb. 3 Science. If ...

An amorphous diamond – one that lacks the crystalline structure of diamond, but is every bit as hard – has been created by a Stanford-led team of researchers. But what good is an amorphous diamond?

University of Houston Scientist has been awarded a grant to research the use of amorphous materials. Bill Stamps tells us where the research could lead. “So we need to make a memory which per given ...

Scientists in Italy have discovered that carbon dioxide can form a glass, the British journal Nature reports on Thursday. Under extremely high pressures of up to half a million atmospheres, molecules ...

But until now, a similar phase of carbon had never been synthesized. The team was able to create amorphous diamond by bringing a structurally disordered form of carbon called glassy carbon up to ...

A new form of carbon that rivals diamonds in its hardness, but has an amorphous structure similar to glass, has been produced under ultrahigh pressure in laboratory experiments. An amorphous diamond - ...