NASA's Curiosity rover recently detected boron in Gale Crater on Mars. This has many implications with regards to ancient alien life that might have lived there. Follow TI: On Facebook More from ...

Everyone knows about the disputed discovery of oxygen, but it's less widely known that boron is dogged by the same controversy, and with a similar Anglo–Gallic flavour. In this case the rivals ...

Long ago, a global search for borane superfuels led fortuitously to the discovery of ... carboranes revitalized boron hydride chemistry and modified our ideas of chemical bonding.

Boron is a trace element essential for maintaining health, even though we are often unaware of its importance. A deficiency ...

This discovery could lead to developing new ... Due to their transparency and chemical inertness, boron-doped diamonds can be used in applications where other materials fail.

by introducing impurities such as the element boron. Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have now discovered another interesting ...