Boron is a trace element essential for maintaining health, even though we are often unaware of its importance. A deficiency can lead to serious health issues, making it crucial to consume adequate ...

Researchers are opening up new horizons in chemistry: They present the world's first triple bond between the atoms boron and carbon. Boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen: these four elements can ...

Credit: Rian Dewhurst / University of Wuerzburg Scientists in Germany have achieved something never seen before: creating a stable boron-carbon triple bond. While triple bonds exist between many ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...

In the field of chemistry, certain bonds have long baffled researchers, especially those involving less common elements such as boron. However, a team from the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg ...

She would defer to everyone else, saying nothing, but storing up every glance and gesture, silently skewering the bourgeois pleasantries in her mind, and later in a poem. I keep a complete copy of ...

Ditlevsen, however, once wrote that she did much of her best work in poetry. There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, the first English translation of those poems, starts with selections ...

School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China ...

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