Plastic is a lot easier to work with than glass, which is one of the reasons it's used so much more often. That may be about to change, though, thanks to a new process that allows glass to be ...

Researchers made an exciting discovery during a dive in Bulgaria's Chengene Skele Bay in the Black Sea when they found over 100 ancient glass objects. The June 2024 discovery was made by a team from ...

Researchers have developed a new way to 3D-print glass microstructures that is faster and produces objects with higher optical quality, design flexibility and strength. Researchers at UC Berkeley have ...

Glass is often thought of as a very stable, unchanging material. That, unless you drop it, it will be around forever. This, however, is far from the truth. Glass undergoes a unique and insidious type ...

ETH researchers used a 3D printing process to produce complex and highly porous glass objects. The basis for this is a special resin that can be cured with UV light. Producing glass objects using 3D ...

A piece of glass with tiny little bumps on it can be used to identify objects. The “smart glass” could eventually be more compact than using cameras and computers to achieve the same aim. Receive a ...

Most three-dimensional glass objects are produced via either a molding, blowing or 3D-printing process. Chinese scientists, however, have devised a technique of folding such items into shape – and it ...

You don’t have to be old to know that the museum experience has changed. That phrase is itself the most radical change of all, for it assumes that a museum is not a storeroom of objects but a place ...

Artist Pia Hinz flips this idea on its head as she explores the conceptual and material relationship between strength and ...

Glass, forged by fire, is increasingly becoming a hot topic in fashion—think Coperni’s latest Swipe bags and Pat McGrath’s “glass skin” on the couture runways. Now, in Copenhagen, Annika Zobel Agerled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rows of milk glass on warehouse shelves. - Edgar Lee Espe/Shutterstock "Milk glass" is the term for opaque white glass objects.