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The article focuses on developments in boron and its applications. Topics include emergence of Frustrated Lewis acids containing electron-deficient boron centres and their applications in catalysis; application of boron in medicine such as boron-neutron-capture-therapy; and significance of vacancies and the bending of the overall boron structure for stability of boron cluster.

The article reports on a study about the possible formation of a boron-boron triple bond with only three valence electrons. It says that boron normally resists the development of multiple bonding due to its highly electron-deficient nature. It explores the reactivation of a boron-boron triple bond and how it redefines the fundamental understanding of chemical bonding.

The article discusses the recovery of coordinated borinium cation. Topics discussed include the discoveries on the developments of the chemistry of boron, the structures of born and their compounds and its Lewis acidic nature. Also emphasized is the absence of any solvent coordination on boron atom even in its solution state.

The article discusses a study, which states that the time reduction to accurately determine the number of infective propagules of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil, substrate, or in inoculum is through the most probable number (MPN) technique. It states that the MPN technique is based on a determination of the presence or absence of microorganisms in several individual aliquots of each of several consecutive dilutions of any material.