Borosilicate glass offers extreme stability; Microsoft’s accelerated aging experiments suggest the data would be stable for ...

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 ...

A Microsoft Research study suggests glass blocks etched with lasers could provide enduring data archives ...

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

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers ...

Researchers have now created a new type of glass using nothing but sound waves and salt. Sure, that might sound like one heck of a science experiment—and in a way, it is—but it's also a major ...

Natural silica glass, found in Earth's driest regions, forms when intense heat from meteor impacts or atmospheric explosions ...

Glassblower Freddie Blache, left, cools and shapes molten glass while speaking to students during a science and arts lesson Wednesday at W.A. Threadgill Primary School.

Glass is one of those materials we often take for granted, yet it quietly shapes nearly every aspect of our lives. Think about it—it’s in the screen you’re reading this on, the windows that let ...