Weird, multisided geometric shapes called buckyballs have been discovered in an unexpected place: marine animals that lived 80 million years ago. Microscopic forms of buckyballs have been found in ...

The Spitzer infrared telescope discovers solid buckyballs in space for the first time, giving astronomers clues into the nature of matter in deep space. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Far from Earth, drifting between the stars, lies a quiet ocean of carbon. Astronomers call it the interstellar medium, a vast realm where simple and complex molecules float through cold clouds of gas ...

Scientists have characterized the quantum behavior of buckminsterfullerene molecules, also known as buckyballs, with the hope of perhaps one day turning them into miniature quantum computers.

Chemists have discovered that tiny gold 'seed' particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spheres that are cousins of ...

I'm sure you know that buckyballs are molecules composed entirely of carbon and got their name for famed architect Buckminster Fuller because of their shapes. Now, Rice University scientists have ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold “seed” particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, ...