In the middle of the twentieth century, Soviet and East German engineers quietly pushed glass far beyond the fragile material most people know from windows and wine glasses. Their experiments produced ...

If you combine two or three metals together, you will get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns. But once in a while, under just the ...

Not everything about glass is clear. How its atoms are arranged and behave, in particular, is startlingly opaque. The problem is that glass is an amorphous solid, a class of materials that lies in the ...

Manoj Choudhary, ScD ’80, can’t believe that most people look through glass without a second thought. To him, it’s humanity’s most important material. “No material combines utility and beauty like ...

China Triumph International Engineering Co Ltd, the world's largest glass engineering service provider, has successfully launched an 800-metric-ton-per-day ultra-clear rolled photovoltaic (PV) glass ...

The glass lantern Apple Store at Zorlu Center in Istanbul. Photo: Apple Apple has won another architectural award for the innovative glass engineering used to create its impossibly perfect glass ...