The brain vitrified at temperatures above 510°C followed by extremely rapid cooling, revealing a new timeline ... of ancient Roman history and scientific understanding. How Glass Forms: A Rare ...

This is a "frigger", an object made by glass workers using left-over material once their day's work was done (and with their master's consent!), at the end of the 1800s or beginning of the 1900s.

The Turner Museum of Glass at Sheffield University's Department of Engineering Materials is based on a collection of glass objects owned by W E S Turner, a chemical engineer who specialised in ...

Damascus, SANA – Damascus is renowned to be the first city which gave birth to the art of glass blowing and the glass makers of Syria have a history as old as time. Glass-making goes back to ...

After a visitor attempted to smash its protective glass last week, the painting and its wild history of attempted vandalism and theft is back in the spotlight. Here's everything you need to know ...