Number 59 (Story #2), December 18, 1991 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein METAL-FILLED BUCKYBALLS in a variety of types were reported at the recent meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston. A Naval Research Lab group, using laser light to open up fullerene molecules, was able to insert one or more yttrium atoms. At UCLA scientists created C-80 molecules containing two lanthanum atoms each. Meanwhile, an IBM researcher produced C-82 fullerenes containing lanthanum, scandium, or yttrium atoms. These findings are the first independent confirmations of Richard Smalley's demonstration of metal-filled fullerenes this past summer. (Science News, 14 Dec. 1991.)