Buckyballs are the rule-breakers of chemistry. These strange molecules are made up of 60 carbon atoms, fused together in a soccer-ball shape. For years, scientists assumed they could only be made in ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Buckyballs CEO says the office toy is not defective and marketed to adults. Sept. 12, 2012— -- Buckyballs, a toy made up of small magnetic beads that can be molded into different shapes, is one ...

Researchers in Switzerland say they've solved a nearly 100-year-old astronomical mystery by discovering what's in the wispy cloud of gas that floats in the space between the stars. Astronomers have ...

Owners of Buckyballs and Buckycubes desk magnets are eligible for refunds if they return the products, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday. In the spring of 2012, CPSC sued Maxfield & ...

(CBS News) Buckyballs may soon be hard to come by, now that the federal government has filed a complaint to stop the magnets' sales over injury risks. In a complaint filed by the U.S. Consumer Product ...

Toy maker has been under continued pressure from the federal government. Oct. 31, 2012— -- Maxfield & Oberton, the maker of Buckyballs and Buckycubes, popular office toys made up of small ...