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Researcher Develops Process for Making 'Unbreakable' Glass

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (43) | comments 5

Wine glasses that don’t shatter? Baby bottles that don’t break? Coffee mugs that last generations? All are possible with a new process for strengthening glass and ceramics developed by an Alfred University researcher.





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Separating the brain's 'bad' from 'good' iron

Chemistry /

created Aug 23, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Duke University chemists are developing ways to bind up iron in the brain to combat the neurological devastation of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. The key is to weed out potentially destructive forms of iron that generate ...


Flow of tiny bubbles mimics computer circuitry

Flow of tiny bubbles mimics computer circuitry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 08, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (49) | comments 0

In work that could dramatically boost the capabilities of "lab on a chip" devices, MIT researchers have created a way to use tiny bubbles to mimic the capabilities of a computer.


University lab demonstrates 3-D printing in glass

University lab demonstrates 3-D printing in glass

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

A team of engineers and artists working at the University of Washington's Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory has developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3-D printer. The technique ...


Made by man, finished by nature: Now's the best time to hit the beach to hunt for sea glass

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

It may have once been part of a beer bottle. Or a vase. Or a Milk of Magnesia container. But after decades of being tumbled by water, after years of having its edges softened and rounded, it sits on the beach, a colored ...



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