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Simple motor made from Buckyballs, a battery and wire

YouTube user graybum devises many simple and ingenious uses for Buckyballs, such as this amazing electric motor. It’s not got enough power to do anything useful, but it is a cool demonstration of basic electrical principles.

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Mice fed carbon buckyballs have their lifespan doubled

In more interesting mouse science news, mice administered a dose of carbon buckyballs in olive oil had their lifespans double compared to a control group. If you combine that with the mice that developed gigantic testicles after eating yogurt, you would have some sort of ancient, super fertile mouse mutants.

NASA’s Spitzer Telescope finds solid buckyballs IN SPAAAAACE

Using the Spitzer Telescope, NASA discovered solid carbon buckyball particles in deep space. Previously, carbon buckyball formations had only been discovered in gaseous form.

posted 22 February, 2012
by cranberryzero
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Buckyballs gets squared off, turn into Buckycubes for more building fun

Last year, the neodymium magnet toy, Buckyballs were the hottest stocking stuffer during the holidays, because there’s just unlimited fun to be had in strong rare earth magnets, Now, Buckballs have evolved into cubes to make magnet building ven more… stable.

Get ‘em here for $25

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