Number 14 (Story #3), December 27, 1990 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE SOCCER-BALL STRUCTURE OF CARBON -60 and carbon-70, surmised from work done earlier this year, has been further elucidated in NMR, infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray, and electron-diffraction studies. Called Buckminsterfullerene (or Buckyballs), the carbon-60 molecules may, some believe, make possible a new branch of organic chemistry, and enthusiasm for the subject prompted a special session at the recent meeting of the Materials Research Society. Now that macroscopic amounts of the substance are available, scanning tunneling microscope pictures of the solid (fullerite) have been prepared by a group at IBM Almaden (D. Bethune, 408-927-2480) and by a Missouri-MaxPlanck-Arizona (Donald Huffman, Arizona, 602-621-3804) collaboration. (Nature, December 13, 1990.)