Researchers at Carnegie Science have developed an ultrahard diamond glass. Made entirely of crushed “soccerballs” of carbon, the new material also has high thermal conductivity and could find use in ...

Most glass is made by melting down soda ash, limestone and quartz sand. gezgin01/iSock via Getty Images The first step to make glass requires heating up a mixture of minerals – often soda ash, ...

Glass is everywhere—windows, bottles, phone screens—so common that we hardly stop to think about it. It feels so natural, yet it’s entirely man-made. We often question what everyday objects are made ...

People who investigate scientific topics either love or hate glass, which is a confusing none-of-the-above unicorn: neither fully liquid nor fully solid, exhibiting some properties of each, but ...

Solar photovoltaic module provider Heliene, based in Canada with a manufacturing facility in the U.S. in Minnesota, will purchase “ultra-low carbon glass” that uses recycled materials from retired ...

Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay into bricks, ...

Glass can be recycled infinitely without losing any of its properties. Why, then, are most countries — with the exception of those in Europe — still burying most of their glass as landfill by the ...

A badly damaged Toyota Prius. Designed for safety during powerful collisions, tempered window glass breaks apart into tiny, rounded pieces, while laminated windshield glass cracks but remains in the ...

The transparent space in between: as this rendering shows, Proline T from Solarlux can completely surround buildings with glass surfaces, with modules unfolding variably to save space. Image Courtesy ...