Soon after Simona Dai was born in 1992 in rural China, she was sent to live with a foster family, hidden away so her parents could hold out for a son. Driving that decision was the country’s ...

Even the best lab-grown diamonds can stir up a bit of skepticism in shoppers—and for good reason. You might wonder: How can anything concocted in a laboratory compare to what’s organically ...

Although they all have families and jobs, it turns out none of them have ever fully accepted the need to leave their childhoods behind. Directed by Dennis Dugan.

News has always driven markets, but curiously the importance of big data releases has grown substantially in recent years. Analysis by The Economist finds that, over the past year, bond-market ...

A group of old high-school friends recapture some of their past glories and learn life lessons from their own children, who are celebrating the last day of school.

Today, a pumpkin has to pass the ton mark to be noteworthy. That’s about the weight of a full-grown walrus, heavier than a Smart car, more than three times the Olympic weightlifting record in ...

A university lecturer has successfully grown a full-size ruby from a tiny offcut in what is believed to be a world-first process. Sofie Boons who lectures in jewellery design at the University of ...

Lab-grown diamonds are known by several different names, including synthetic diamonds, man-made diamonds, and cultured diamonds. They have the same physical properties of natural diamonds because ...

When we write sentences, we always use a capital letter at the start and and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark when we end a sentence. We also use capital letters for I and for proper ...

Business schools will be presenting lessons on lab-grown meat,” says Julian Mellentin, a food consultant whose company has ...

Ashley Beckwith, lead author of the study, said her hope is that lab-grown wood could one day supplement ... Ms Beckwith added: "I don't know that I would grow a fully assembled table, because ...

Ever since then, the jewelry establishment has been erecting barriers of entry for lab-grown diamonds into their lucrative $84 billion global market. The Natural Diamond Council established the ...