World-class musician Mark Stewart comes to the Glass Lab
On tour with Paul Simon in the late 1990s, musician Mark Stewart bought his first didgeridoo, a hollow wind instrument from Australia known for its sonorous quaver. Once home in New York, Stewart was...
View ArticleCutting through the fog
Preventing glass from fogging or frosting up is a longstanding challenge with myriad applications: eyeglasses, cameras, microscopes, mirrors and refrigerated displays, to name but a few. While there...
View ArticleResident artist explores pangrams at MIT Glass Lab
Glass can serve as a window that gives a clear view of the world, or as a mirror that perfectly reflects our own image. If you introduce distortion to the glass, you can obscure that view of the world...
View ArticleA new understanding of metallic glass
Gelatin sets by forming a solid matrix full of random, liquid-filled pores — much like a saturated sponge. It turns out that a similar process also happens in some metallic glasses, substances whose...
View ArticleVideo: The MIT Glass Lab — where art meets science
Watch the video at: http://video.mit.edu/watch/mit-glass-lab-where-art-meets-science-24645/
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