You grow up thinking that gems are incredibly special and rare. That they’re only owned by kings and nobility, and that at ...

It is easy to irradiate objects, so green diamonds are produced synthetically too. Sorting a natural example from one produced in a lab is not always possible.' Naturally coloured red diamonds are ...

In a world full of dupes, it can be challenging to distinguish between a real diamond and a fake one. Jewellery expert Goodstone reports that diamond scams cost consumers an estimated $8bn per year.

They didn’t ask whether cultivated diamonds, which are “real” diamonds in their chemical and physical composition and indistinguishable from the mined version only with the aid of laboratory ...