11.   Complex carbon molecules and water, which are key ingredients for life, have been found in the dust and gas around distant stars.

12.   In space, the carbon molecules are probably generated in aged stars, and then blown all over the place when the stars die.

13.   Two Americans and a Briton won the chemistry prize for discovering a family of carbon molecules that spawned a new field of study.

14.   Two Texans and a Briton won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a family of soccer ball-shaped carbon molecules that spawned a new field of study.

15.   Two U.S. scientists and a Briton won the chemistry prize for discovering a family of carbon molecules that spawned a field of study into new medicines and materials.