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Although windows can naturally heat buildings in the cold seasons, during the summer they can easily overheat a building. To help with this problem, Japanese scientists at AIST recently developed a thin film which can make transparent glass turn into mirrors. The use of such a window in buildings o...

It's easy: mix together some materials like sand, limestone and soda. Heat them above 2000o F. Then cool the incandescent liquid carefully so that crystals cannot form. That's how you make glass. Craftsmen on Earth have followed this basic recipe for millennia. It works. "Now we know i...

Spanish researchers at the Autonomous University of Madrid claim to have created the most perfectly flat mirror ever, which they think may be useful for creating a new type of microscope. Lead researcher Vazquez de Parga has revealed that his team made the smoothest surface ever by combining silic...

Research may lead to better UV/radiation blocking in eye glasses Adding cerium oxide to phosphate glass rather than the commonly used silicate glass may make eye glasses that block ultraviolet light and have increased radiation damage resistance while remaining colourless, according to Penn S...

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Glass Transparent glass mirror (Preview)	Physics News	7	2781	Nov 16 21:00 2012 by Blobrana
Although windows can naturally heat buildings in the cold seasons, during the summer they can easily overheat a building. To help with this problem, Japanese scientists at AIST recently developed a thin film which can make transparent glass turn into mirrors. The use of such a window in buildings o...
Glass Glass in Space (Preview)	General news	7	3911	May 11 09:39 2017 by Blobrana
It's easy: mix together some materials like sand, limestone and soda. Heat them above 2000o F. Then cool the incandescent liquid carefully so that crystals cannot form. That's how you make glass. Craftsmen on Earth have followed this basic recipe for millennia. It works. "Now we know i...
Glass Flat mirror (Preview)	Physics News	1	1044	Sep 23 00:36 2008 by Blobrana
Spanish researchers at the Autonomous University of Madrid claim to have created the most perfectly flat mirror ever, which they think may be useful for creating a new type of microscope. Lead researcher Vazquez de Parga has revealed that his team made the smoothest surface ever by combining silic...
Glass UV/radiation blocking (Preview)	Physics News	0	964	Dec 15 16:05 2009 by Blobrana
Research may lead to better UV/radiation blocking in eye glasses Adding cerium oxide to phosphate glass rather than the commonly used silicate glass may make eye glasses that block ultraviolet light and have increased radiation damage resistance while remaining colourless, according to Penn S...