The best way to understand glass is to understand how it is made. The first step to make glass requires heating up a mixture of minerals – often soda ash, limestone and quartz sand – until they melt ...

Researchers discover how molecules in ancient glass rearrange and recombine with minerals over centuries to form a patina of photonic crystals -- ordered arrangements of atoms that filter and reflect ...

When you stroll along a beach, you may look down and spot colorful bits of worn glass mixed in with the sand. But the little treasures you've found actually began as discarded trash. As an ...

Glass forms when a liquid is fast cooled preventing crystallization, across a reversible process known as the glass transition. Organic tissues are commonly preserved as glass by processes of ...

It's a lovely summer weekend morning. We relax in our living room with the sunlight coming gently through the windows. We glance outside and can see the green leaves and watch birds in the yard. We ...

Some 2,000 years ago in ancient Rome, glass vessels carrying wine or water, or perhaps an exotic perfumes, tumble from a table in a marketplace, and shatter to pieces on the street. As centuries ...