Far from Earth, in the vast expanses of space between stars, exists a treasure trove of carbon. There, in what scientists ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sometimes I (almost) envy mice, rats, and yeast - it seems that almost any aging research we carry out on them doubles their lifespan and returns semi-senescent (say, a human equivalent of about 60 ...

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 ...

The company that distributes Buckyballs magnets unleashed an advertising blitz Thursday aimed at Washington policymakers — including President Obama — as it tries to save itself from what it describes ...

Compared to deeper cosmological mysteries like the identity of dark matter and dark energy or what’s going on inside black holes, there are other unknowns that appear more mundane, their solutions ...