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Scientists have characterized the quantum behavior of buckminsterfullerene molecules, also known as buckyballs, with…

Montreal’s Expo 67 was the most successful World’s Fair in history, a vision of the future laced with monorails and…

The internet is a big place. There’s so much to read and watch and listen to that it can be overwhelming. We all…

NASA’s bizarre Super Ball Bot is unlike any robot ever built–it uses a net of wires and rods to move, and could…

Buckminster Fuller was a world-renowned architect, math-obsessed designer, and affable weirdo. He died in 1983, but…

Buckminster Fuller was either a brilliant inventor or a nutcase charlatan, depending on who you ask. And perhaps no…

Between 1965 and 1970, radio broadcaster Studs Terkel held multiple interviews with designer and inventor…

There's something jarring about hearing old interviews of legendary futurist Buckminster Fuller. He speaks at a…

Buckminster Fuller was a designer, futurist, and humanitarian, from his famous dome to his perspective-changing…

Every year, 10,000 Danes come together for the Folkemødet, a celebrated "political festival" of spirited policy…

Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Deployment Unit—an emergency shelter developed during WWII—isn't his most well-known…

When Buckminster Fuller died, he was buried under a gravestone with a very peculiar inscription: CALL ME TRIMTAB.…

The world has changed in countless ways since Buckminster Fuller invented the Dymaxion map in 1943. Wars have come…

Dorion Sagan, son of Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis, weighs in on the dialectical relationship between science and…

Most people know that Earth's landmasses once formed single supercontinent, but how said continent peeled away from…

When you're waiting for Buckminster Fuller to come down your chimney, what else are you going to munch on besides a…

Buckminster Fuller only designed about a dozen of domed structures to begin with, and many have either been torn…

In 1936, artist Isamu Noguchi was working on his mural History Mexico when he forgot the equation for E=mc². Rather…

The key to nanotechnology may not be making tiny structures out of individual molecules. It may be forcing those…

Chances are you're too young to remember the days when traveling salesmen went door-knocking (unless you're still…