Scientists at Rice University in Houston say they've found a way to control the bonds between the atoms of a molecule. Discovered at Rice in 1985, the molecule in question is carbon-60, also known as the buckminsterfullerene, which is said to look like a soccer ball. Researchers led by Rice physicists Yajing Li and Douglas Natelson determined they could loosen the bonds holding the atoms together by applying a certain voltage and running an electric current through a single molecule.
