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The Giant of Nanoscience
Mildred Dresselhaus was a giant in the field of nanoscience. She didn't invent anything you have in your home right now, but she made it possible for us to have self-charging phones, smarter refrigerators, and more.
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3 Cosmic Time Capsules
Long before we were around, the universe was preserving clues about the distant past, in everything from little balls of carbon to huge groups of stars.
Next Animation Studio
Hubble Space Telescope finds charged soccer-shaped molecules in space
The Hubble Space Telescope have identified electrically-charged molecules in space that are shaped like soccer balls.
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Animation of spinning buckyball (buckminsterfullerene) molecule: Molecules consisting of 60 joined carbon atoms
Animation of spinning buckyball (buckminsterfullerene) molecule: Molecules consisting of 60 joined carbon atoms
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Nobel Chemist Harry Kroto and Buckyballs
We'll talk with chemist Harry Kroto about his discovery of buckyballs in the 1980s, and about new nano applications today, such as buckypaper.