The key to nanotechnology may not be making tiny structures out of individual molecules. It may be forcing those structures to build themselves. And scientists appear to have found a way to make that ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Research at Purdue University suggests synthetic carbon molecules called fullerenes, or buckyballs, have a high potential of being accumulated in animal tissue, but the ...

If you've always wanted to legally purchase a set of Buckyballs, those small spherical magnets that can be messed with and molded into whatever you desire, now's your chance. A federal judge ...

Observations made with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have provided surprises concerning the presence of buckminsterfullerenes, or “buckyballs,” the largest known molecules in space. A study of R ...

Researchers at Carnegie Science have developed an ultrahard diamond glass. Made entirely of crushed “soccerballs” of carbon, the new material also has high thermal conductivity and could find use in ...

Could tiny carbon cages store hydrogen for a hydrogen economy? Tiny carbon capsules called buckyballs are strong enough to hold volumes of hydrogen nearly as dense as those found at the center of ...

A few years ago, astronomers detected complex carbon molecules – previously only thought to be made in a lab setting – floating around in interstellar space. How these so called buckyballs came to be ...

Carbon, the building block of every living thing on this planet, may turn out to be the source of a new class of potent drugs that will treat conditions as varied as AIDS, Lou Gehrig's disease, ...

The discovery of Buckyballs, a new form of carbon that ushered in the era of nanotechnology and won a Nobel Prize, happened largely by accident. In 1985, Rice University chemists Robert Curl and ...

(CN) - The creators of magnetic desk toys called Buckyballs cannot sideline publicity rights claims from the estate of the late master inventor Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller is best ...