A Dartmouth College scientist and his collaborators have created an artificial protein that organizes new materials at the nanoscale. "This is a proof-of-principle study demonstrating that proteins ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So ...

Research at Purdue University suggests synthetic carbon molecules called fullerenes, or buckyballs, have a high potential of being accumulated in animal tissue, but the molecules also appear to break ...

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 & ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has just banned the sale of Buckyballs, those magic magnets that can be shaped any which way, because the balls are a serious health hazard for children. It’s ...

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 ...

If you need a gift idea for the holiday season, you can now buy small, powerful, rare earth magnets known generally as Buckyballs. Once regulated and banned because of the danger they pose to kids— ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...