Reports on some of the discoveries and developments in fields from astronomy to molecular biology. This book tells the story of "buckyballs," or buckminsterfullerenes, a form of carbon discovered only a few years ago, that have the potential to be used in a variety of important applications, from superconductivity to nanotechnology.

This fascinating book has something for every reader who wants to better understand the universe. Expert science writers report on the latest discoveries and the creative thinking of some of America's top investigators. how scientists today are handling atoms one at a time. They have arranged them in patterns like stones in a rock garden while one researcher has even trapped a positron-and named her Priscilla.