An international research team has shown that materials can look and act like superconductors, even when they aren’t technically superconductors. Potassium-doped carbon fullerenes are known ...

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 ...

The marvel of superconductors is their ability to carry electricity without any loss. A superconducting ring, for example, can theoretically sustain a looping current indefinitely. The catch, however, ...

Since brochosomes were first discovered coating leafhoppers’ exoskeleton, their unique buckyball shape has puzzled scientists. Why expend precious energy to make such trypophobia-inducing structures ...