RIT Glass sees much interconnectedness across campus, and is taking full advantage of the inimitable landscape. Graduate and fourth-year undergraduate Glass students were prompted to develop a project ...

William LaCourse, emeritus professor of glass science engineering in Alfred University’s Inamori School of Engineering, delivered the first annual Varshneya Lecture on Glass Thursday morning, Oct. 16.

The University of San Francisco’s new John Lo Schiavo Center for Science and Innovation (CSI) brings science to the forefront of academic life. Its glossy, three-story exterior invites students into ...

Glass skin is often described as ultra-dewy, poreless, and reflective, but the look is less about shine and more about skin ...

A gift from Arun Varshneya, Alfred University emeritus professor of glass science, and his wife, Darshana, will support the University Conference on Glass series as well as an annual lecture on glass ...

Principles of glass formation -- Glass melting -- Immiscibility/phase separation -- Structures of glasses -- Viscosity of glass formaing melts -- Density and thermal expansion -- Transport properties ...

Glass-fragment waste typically just ends up in landfills, but perhaps that doesn't always have to be the case. A study shows that ground glass particles can be mixed with soil to produce a plant ...

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 ...

Glass, by definition, is amorphous. But when scientists squeezed tiny samples of a metallic glass under high pressure, they got a surprise: The atoms lined up in a regular pattern to form a single ...

After years of speculation and teasers, Google’s Project Glass augmented reality glasses are finally beginning to be tested in public. We’re a long way from these glasses being a shipping product, but ...

Glassmaking dates back at least as far as the 16th century B.C. In this early epoch, the ancient Assyrians recorded the basic recipe for glass on clay tablets. But craftsmen of the Middle Ages raised ...