Princeton chemists are expanding our understanding of the universe by identifying complex molecules in interstellar space.

It was, in 1958, the worlds largest clear span. The Union Tank Car Building was 384 feet in diameter, 128 feet high. "It was just big and magnificent," Fuller biographer Jay Baldwin said to Kansas City Star reporter Mike Hendricks. "It was a

Allison Arieff reviews the Buckminster Fuller retrospective at the Whitney. She writes "His brain was constantly consumed with the serious issues of his day —

Buckminster Fuller 's 1933 Dymaxion car was a marvel. Architect Norman Foster tells Jonathan Glancey of the Guardian: "The Dymaxion had the same engine and transmission as the Ford Sedan of the time," says Foster, who worked

At the time of its construction the Union Tank Car Dome was the biggest clear span structure in the world. It was demolished in 2008 (see Another

Robert Rubin saves " the last, monumental prototype that Bucky was working on when he died".

A dozen units survive, according to Alastair Gordon in the New York Times

Savings in snow removal alone would have paid for it in ten years.

A lot of websites are saying so, but there is no evidence that it ever happened.

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day. Vegetarians do not.

Those of us who love everything Bucky are stunned too.

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day.

The biggest one is that no matter how clever the design, it is the land that matters, not the house, and that nothing has changed in 70 years.