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" ...

Zhenguo Huang receives funding from Australian Research Council and U.S. Borax. Each time you watch sport on a flatscreen television, or send a message by touching your smartphone screen, give thanks ...

Scientists have found the first case of an ionic crystal consisting of just one chemical element -- boron. This is the densest and hardest known phase of this element. The new phase turned out to be a ...

For folks whose last exposure to the periodic table might have been in a college or high school chemistry class, the idea that the order of elements on the periodic table is not an immutable physical ...

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 is not a word that comes to mind over small talk. You may have never even uttered the name of a rather uninteresting metal. But some of the chemical compounds that contain boron are very cool.

HOUSTON, April 23, 2007 -- A new study by Rice University scientists predicts the existence and stability of another "buckyball" consisting entirely of boron atoms. The research, which has been ...

Buckyballs (or Buckminsterfullerene), the soccer ball-like structures of 60 carbon atoms, have a new playmate. Previously only theorized, researchers from Brown University in the US and Shanxi and ...