In 1985, three scientists accidentally created a soccer ball-shaped molecule that defied everything chemistry textbooks said about carbon. The discovery of buckminsterfullerene—or 'buckyballs'—happened during what was supposed to be a completely different experiment about space dust, launching the entire field of nanotechnology and earning a Nobel Prize along the way. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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