Even though it is listed in the periodic table, 1 the metallic element boron is not a naturally occurring element. It is found in small amounts in the earth’s surface, and it is thought to be produced ...

Is anything better than a fancy diamond? Actually, yes: a "fancy, intense" diamond. And according to one official scale of superlatives used to grade diamonds, even better than a "fancy, intense" ...

Each time you watch sport on a flatscreen television, or send a message by touching your smartphone screen, give thanks to an unsung hero of the periodic table: boron. Boron, often wrongly labelled a ...

An elite chemical club has a new member, after a team in Germany found a way to link two boron atoms together with a stable triple bond. Boron joins carbon and nitrogen as one of the few elements in ...

Unlike its neighbours on the right-hand side of the periodic table, boron barely forms an anion. A new trick has been established that allows it to do so, enabling a highly unusual complex to be ...

BORON has been hiding secret skills but its cover is finally blown. In a tightly sealed flask in a German lab sits an emerald-green crystal that is the first stable compound with a triple chemical ...

Whether hung on classroom walls, put up in dorm rooms or screen-printed on T-shirts, the periodic table of elements screams, “Science!” like no other image. And why not? At 118 members and counting, ...

BENGALURU: Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras have made a ...

Crystal-structure prediction methods and diffraction data show that a newly discovered form of boron is partially ionic. This is the first time such a structure has been observed for any elemental ...