"Glass is a really magical, mesmerizing material," Alden said. "The way light and glass interact with each other, you get the ...

The list of materials capable of being extruded through a 3D printer seems to grow by the week, moving well beyond plastics, food and metals to now include another unlikely substance: glass. And while ...

MANCHESTER -- There's more to it than how to handle the blowpipe, but that's where it starts. For several years I've wandered into Manchester Hot Glass, Andrew Weill's glassmaking shop and studio on ...

You begin to feel the burn the moment you walk into Slow Burn Glass Studio in Oakland’s industrial warehouse district. The heat and roaring noise draw you toward the neon-orange glow emanating from ...

IGNACIO – Observers from around the country gathered last weekend in Ignacio to watch local glass blowing master Roger Dale turn bulbs of molten glass into works of art. About 250 people, from Vermont ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Few forms so clearly reference the molten state of ...

Scientists can easily explain the structural order that makes steel and aluminum out of molten metal. And they have discovered the molecular changes that take place as water turns to ice. But, despite ...

— Numerous fire companies are on the scene of the rupture of a tank of molten glass at local manufacturing plant at this hour. The tank break, as the incident is referred to, took place at the Anchor ...

Workers at a Northeast Portland plant are cleaning up the rest of a molten glass spill that firefighters contained and cooled down Friday night. Fire crews were called at about 9 p.m. to the glass ...

ZANESVILLE, Ohio — Hours after this city's fire chief met with engineers at a glass plant Monday to talk about emergency preparedness, 300,000 tons of molten glass spilled like a volcano from a ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientific glassblower Carlos Rodriguez Flores uses a blowtorch to fabricate a glass test cell for a molten salt visualization experiment (Credit: ORNL) Oak Ridge ...

ZANESVILLE, OH (WCMH) – A tank rupture at the Owens-Illinois glass plant in Zanesville resulted in the spill of around 300 tons of molten glass Monday afternoon. It happened around 2pm at the plant on ...