A New York jewelry designer and breast cancer survivor, Neda Benham, announced that her new venture, “Diamonds for the Cure”, would join countless other businesses and designers who raise money for breast cancer research.

Diamond inclusions and flaws reveal key info dating 3.5 billion years about Earth’s past and continental drifts according to researchers from the Carnegie Institution.

Belgian Jewellery Designer Danielle Goffa unvelied her new collection, which features pieces containing lab-grown diamonds. The exclusive event was held at Hanger 311 in Mechelan, Belgium.

Carats Direct of Vancouver, British Columbia has partnered up with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation to raise money for Breast Cancer Research and Awareness. Eight limited edition pins with a rare pink diamond will be sold, and all profits for to the

Now, through a process involving nano-photography, a person can have the photograph of a loved one—or a photograph of anything, for that matter—embedded into a diamond.

On California’s Channel Islands, some researchers believe that they have found strong evidence that a comet exploding over North America during the Pleistocene Era may have caused widespread extinctions. With the discovery of tiny hexagonal diamonds, scientists believe that they are proof of a massive impact that could have wiped out the Clovis people, mastodons, and other early inhabitants of the continent.

On July 22, 2008, the FTC ruled that the word “cultured” may be used to describe diamonds grown in a laboratory. This declaration has split opinion among the jewelry community.

The Hope Diamond, a mysterious blue gem, was donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History over 50 years ago. Next month, the museum is celebrating the anniversary of the diamond by having a new setting designed for it.

Sarin Technologies recently launched the Instructor, a new software package that works with its polished diamond measuring equipment to ensure greater results and a higher yield.

Rochester, NY -- University of Rochester optical scientists have recently discovered that, by using a tabletop laser, they can change the color of a metal. The innovation began when Chunlei Guo used laser light to change the properties in various metals to turn them black. Because it was the metals themselves that were altered, there was no risk of the color peeling off. Now, one year later, the associate professor believes that it is possible to turn any metal any color—or even a variety of colors.

For decades, diamonds have been used in industry, creating a heat-resistant, ultra-strong, long-lasting cutting or drilling surface. Diamond blades have had innumerable commercial uses since it was discovered that their trademark hardness and strength could be harnessed and made into large-scale drilling or cutting tools. As technology moved ahead and scientists understood more and more about diamonds and the possible uses for them, it became clear that the hardest of stones could be used for delicate things as well.

Did you know drug resistance causes 90 percent of treatment failure for cancer patients? Now this may no longer be a problem, and diamonds are part of the solution. According to a new study, Northwestern University in Illinois, researchers have discovered attaching chemotherapy drugs to nanodiamonds, tiny carbon-based particles between 2 and 8 nanometers in diameter,

Diamonds discovered in candle flames by scientists, as much as 1.5 million nanoparticles per flame, may one day prove an alternative source of diamonds