Last week, University of Basel chemist John Maier and his colleagues published a paper in Nature solving a long-standing problem about the gaps between stars.  Astronomers had long known that something was floating out there because of observations of light spectra, but no one knew what it was.  Maier and his group finally solved the puzzle:  the mystery substance is Buckminsterfullerene, a molecule of carbon consisting of 60 atoms named in honor of architect Buckminster Fuller, creator of the geodesic dome.

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