Glass science has evolved into a multidisciplinary field that interrogates the unique structural, chemical, and optical properties of glass materials. Owing to their inherent disorder and ...

A team of scientists from nine institutions in government, academia and industry discovered that many kinds of glass have similar atomic structure and can successfully be made in space. This photo was ...

John Mauro and doctoral student Brittney Hauke perform a calorimetry experiment on a glass sample. Mauro joined Penn State in 2017 after an 18-year career at Corning. Photo provided This article was ...

Glassblower Freddie Blache, left, cools and shapes molten glass while speaking to students during a science and arts lesson Wednesday at W.A. Threadgill Primary School.

Scattered across some of the driest places on Earth are fragments of translucent, often yellow or greenish glass that look almost artificial against the sand. These materials are not the product of ...

Glass is one of those materials we often take for granted, yet it quietly shapes nearly every aspect of our lives. Think about it—it’s in the screen you’re reading this on, the windows that let ...

Seven years ago Alastair Pilkington, a glass expert, whose father Sir Harry is chief of Britain’s great Pilkington glass company, was helping his wife wash dishes. Watching the suds floating on the ...