Glass is made of sand, which is a kind of rock. But glass is transparent. We explore why! Glass is made of sand, which is a kind of rock. But glass is transparent, and rocks aren’t transparent. What’s ...

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 ...

Glass making dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, an astonishing 4,000 years ago. Known as “humankind’s most important material,” 1 glass is ubiquitous in our modern environment. It is used in the ...

You know those watches with a skeleton design and a transparent cover on the back to showcase the inner mechanics and the different components that make them work? Someone thought a similar approach ...

What happens when you expose tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light? That’s the question that Gözden Torun at the Galatea Lab, in a collaboration with Tokyo Tech scientists, aimed to answer in her ...