Sometimes I wrongly neglect carbon when admiring the elements. It is the most abundant of the non-hydrogen elements, which are sometimes all referred to as metal, in life on Earth. 

Its ability to superconduct under select conditions and curl up in a sphere is ubiquitous in biology, (2), medicine, and material science.

Here's what the linked articles tell us:

Biology (Mercatelli, et al.): SARS-COV-2 is readily mutating. No particular strain was known to be more deadly as of early August 2020, but the G strain and derivatives, defined by four specific mutations of the original L strain from 武汉, is by far the most common. 

Medicine (Prylutskyy, et al.): A C60 fullerene ball colloidal solution has been successfully used as a source of up to 6 reducing electrons per molecule, and shown to alleviate stress-induced peroxidation in rat skeletal muscle.

Material Science (Myoung, et al.): Hybrid solar cells made of a p-doped Silicon layer and a thin, doped n-C60 layer can be made more efficient at capturing solar energy. Also science is expensive.

Whoa, £42.5 BEFORE TAX?! As I recall, they actually do use all of that money because science is expensive, but still... I'm not gonna buy that, so I guess I have to remain uninformed.

See ya next time!