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 ...

a global search for borane superfuels led fortuitously to the discovery of carboranes. Ken Wade recalls his own undistinguished part in the space race, and notes how carboranes revitalized boron ...

Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have discovered that boron-doped diamonds can generate plasmons—waves of electrons that move under ...