Bruce Dorminey

Over the last three and a half decades, award-winning science journalist Bruce Dorminey --- a former Forbes senior science contributor, former Hong Kong Bureau Chief at Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine and former Paris-based technology correspondent for the Financial Times, has written for a multitude of high profile publications. They include Astronomy Magazine, Sky and Telescope, Scientific American, Science, Nature News, National Geographic, and Universe Today. He is the author of the 2001 book "Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets beyond the Solar System." He was also the host of the "Cosmic Controversy" podcast which is still available via Podbean.

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Boron Could Be Astrobiology’s Unsung Hero

January 30, 2026

The light, rare element boron, better known as the primary component of borax, a longtime household cleaner, was almost mined to exhaustion in parts of the old American West. But boron could arguably be an unsung hero in cosmic astrobiology, although it's still not listed as one of the key elements needed for the onset of life.

Bruce Dorminey

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Boron Could Be Astrobiology’s Unsung Hero