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  1. Treat science right and it could help save the world

    Harold Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene (the molecules commonly known as buckyballs), is a chemist at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His research interests extend from the microworld of nanoparticles to the chemistry of interstellar space. He also campaigns for a new vision of science education, […]

    By Harold Kroto
  2. Physics

    As the icicle turns

    Drip by drip, a new machine freezes out an existing theory.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Space

    Twinkle, twinkle, little dot

    A faint object was once thought to be the first extrasolar planet to be photographed. Then it wasn’t.