Low-Temp Production Could Mean Cheaper, Flexible Smart Windows
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View ArticleWord of the Year honour a cliff-hanger
A University of Queensland academic who helped invent the term “glass cliff” has celebrated its appearance on the Oxford Dictionaries 2016 Word of the Year shortlist. read more
View ArticleANU art graduates show their best works
The first time was quite frightening because I was looking up and seeing this big ball of red hot glass travelling towards me. read more
View ArticleModel could shatter a mystery of glass
A glass is a curious material in between liquid and solid states of matter, but eventually glass always yields to its solid proclivity by settling into the ordered patterns of a crystal. read more
View ArticleThree Additional Men Plead Guilty for Illegally Harvesting and Selling...
The pleas were the result of “Operation Broken Glass,” a multi-jurisdiction U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) investigation into the illegal trafficking of American eels. To date, the...
View ArticleWhat the fashion historian wants for the holidays
Clothing curator Anne Bissonnette has her eye on a piece of wearable tech history. read more
View ArticleOwner of 2 Chicago-area recycling businesses arrested for multi-million...
CHICAGO — The Indiana owner of two recycling businesses was arrested Monday for allegedly operating a multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving the illegal landfilling or re-selling of potentially...
View ArticleTapping into long-lived sound waves in glass
Yale scientists have shown how to enhance the lifetime of sound waves traveling through glass — the material at the heart of fiber optic technologies. The discovery will be described in the January...
View ArticleTowards better metallic glasses
Researchers from the University of Bristol have used state-of-the-art computer simulation to test a theory from the 1950s that when atoms organise themselves into 3D pentagons they suppress...
View ArticleGSMA Outlines New Developments for 2017 Mobile World Congress
Barcelona: The GSMA today provided further updates on the 2017 Mobile World Congress, announcing newly confirmed keynote speakers for the conference, as well as additional programmes and participating...
View ArticleDateline Rice for March 10, 2017
Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has received a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation to fund a program to examine the dynamic effects of major fiscal policies. John...
View ArticleTwo Men Indicted in Maine for Illegally Trafficking American Eels
William Sheldon, 71, of Woolwich, Maine, and Timothy Lewis, 46, of Phippsburg, Maine, were each indicted in Portland, Maine, with crimes related to illegally trafficking juvenile American eels, also...
View ArticleBrooklyn Seafood Dealer Pleads Guilty for Illegally Trafficking American Eels
Today, Tommy Water Zhou pled guilty in federal district court in Norfolk, Virginia, to trafficking more than $150,361 worth of juvenile American eels, aka “elvers” or “glass eels,” in violation of the...
View ArticleGlassblowers Society to Meet at Campus Laboratory
Glassblower Sally Prasch with an oven in the university laboratory.The campus will host the American Scientific Glassblowers Society’s Northeast Section meeting on Saturday, April 15 from 10 a.m. read...
View ArticleMaine Fisherman Pleads Guilty for Illegally Trafficking American Eels
Today, Richard Austin pleaded guilty in federal district court in Norfolk, Virginia, to trafficking juvenile American eels, aka “elvers” or “glass eels,” in violation of the Lacey Act, announced Acting...
View ArticleStacy Howard
University of Arizona during the 153rd Commencement ceremony on May 12, produced a short film for her senior thesis about a young girl who must live with her traditional Navajo grandmother as a...
View ArticleDevoted Penn State Alumni gift studio glass collection to Palmer Museum of Art
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — It was after a visit to Seattle—a mecca for studio glass collectors—that Arnold 'Arn' and Bette Hoffman really got hooked. But it wasn’t because they got to see where Dale...
View ArticleDateline Rice for May 23, 2017
Scientists at Rice University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have discovered that laser-induced graphene is a highly effective anti-fouling material and, when electrified, bacteria zapper....
View ArticleThe critical point in breaking the glass problem
Famously described as 'the deepest problem in solid state physics' by Nobel Laureate, Philip Andersen, the glass transition, by which a liquid transforms into a solid without freezing, is shedding its...
View ArticleWhat happens at the moving edge of crack?
It is said that a weak link determines the strength of the entire chain. Likewise, defects or small cracks in a solid material may ultimately determine the strength of that material – how well it will...
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