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Material scientists in China experimenting with carbon in its many forms have conjured up a form of glass so hard that it can scratch the surface of a diamond. As reported by the South China Morning Post, the transparent material is also incredibly str… Continue reading World’s strongest glass can scratch the surface of a diamond
We think of radioactive material as something buried away in bunkers with bombs, power plants, and maybe some exotic medical equipment. But turns out, there are little bits of radiation …read more Continue reading Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Radioactive Lenses
While it’s in vogue right now to name fancy new technology after Tesla, the actual inventor had plenty of his own creations that would come to bear his namesake, including …read more Continue reading Tiny Tesla Valves Etched in Glass
Glass is one of humanity’s oldest materials, and it is still used widely for everything from drinking vessels and packaging to optics and communications. Unfortunately, the methods for working with …read more Continue reading Injection-Molded Glass Breakthrough Shatters Ceiling of Work Methods
Plastic is a lot easier to work with than glass, which is one of the reasons it’s used so much more often. That may be about to change, though, thanks to a new process that allows glass to be injection-molded – just like plastic.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Revolutionary technique produces injection-molded glass objects
When it comes to machining, the material that springs to mind is likely to be aluminum, steel, or plastic. We don’t necessarily think of glass as a material suitable for machining, at least not in the chuck-it-up-in-the-lathe sense. But glass is a material that needs to be shaped, too, and …read more
Continue reading Micromachining Glass with a Laser — Very, Very Slowly
Mundane as it may seem, glass is a surprisingly mysterious material. Now scientists at the University of Konstanz have identified a new state of matter called liquid glass, which has some unusual properties.Continue ReadingCategory: Materials, ScienceT… Continue reading Liquid glass discovered as new state of matter
As the world waits for COVID-19 vaccines, some pharmaceutical companies stand armed and ready with an exciting improvement: better vials to hold the doses. Vials haven’t changed much in the last 100 years, but in 2011, Corning decided to do something about that. They started developing an alternative glass that …read more
Continue reading The High-Tech Valor Glass Vials Used to Deliver the Coronavirus Vaccine
Although fire-resistant windows do already exist, they contain a carcinogenic gel, plus their production generates a lot of waste. A new technology that works in the same basic fashion, however, is claimed to be much safer and less wasteful.Continue Re… Continue reading German fire-resistant glass is claimed to be leaner and greener
They’re not surveillance spectacles, says Google, just a piece in the jigsaw of “ambient computing”, where helpfulness is all around you. Continue reading Google buys AR smart-glasses company North