Research Frontiers to Host Third Quarter 2016 Conference Call
WOODBURY, NY – October 31, 2016 – Research Frontiers Inc. (Nasdaq: REFR) announced today that it will release its third quarter 2016 financial results on Thursday, November 3, 2016. In conjunction...
View ArticleAerospace Industry Adoption of SPD-Smart Electronically Dimmable Windows...
Orlando, Florida – November 4, 2015. The trend towards increasing adoption of SPD-Smart electronically dimmable windows (EDWs) for aircraft was evident at this week’s National Business Aviation...
View ArticleTowards better metallic glasses
Researchers from the University of Bristol have used state-of-the-art computer simulation to test a theory from the 1950s that when atoms organise themselves into 3D pentagons they suppress...
View ArticleThe Corning Museum of Glass Unveils 2016 Rakow Commission by Thaddeus Wolfe
This evening, The Corning Museum of Glass will unveil Stacked Grid Structure, this year’s Rakow Commission by Brooklyn-based American artist Thaddeus Wolfe. read more
View ArticleLensless-camera Technology for Easily Adjusting Focus of Video Images after...
TOKYO, November 15, 2016 - Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) today announced the development of a camera technology that can capture video images without using a lens and adjust focus after image capture by...
View ArticleThe Corning Museum of Glass to Present First Major Exhibition Dedicated to...
The first exhibition to explore Louis C. Tiffany’s glass mosaics—an extraordinary but little-known aspect of his artistic production—will be presented by The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) from May...
View ArticleInnoval Technology Brazing ahead with Glass Solutions
Innoval Technology – a global aluminium consultancy company – relies on Glass Solutions to supply precision-manufactured bodies for glass tube brazing furnaces read more
View ArticleWord of the Year honour a cliff-hanger
A University of Queensland academic who helped invent the term “glass cliff” has celebrated its appearance on the Oxford Dictionaries 2016 Word of the Year shortlist. read more
View ArticleGSMA Outlines New Developments for 2017 Mobile World Congress
Barcelona: The GSMA today provided further updates on the 2017 Mobile World Congress, announcing newly confirmed keynote speakers for the conference, as well as additional programmes and participating...
View ArticleDateline Rice for March 10, 2017
Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has received a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation to fund a program to examine the dynamic effects of major fiscal policies. John...
View ArticleTwo Men Indicted in Maine for Illegally Trafficking American Eels
William Sheldon, 71, of Woolwich, Maine, and Timothy Lewis, 46, of Phippsburg, Maine, were each indicted in Portland, Maine, with crimes related to illegally trafficking juvenile American eels, also...
View ArticleBrooklyn Seafood Dealer Pleads Guilty for Illegally Trafficking American Eels
Today, Tommy Water Zhou pled guilty in federal district court in Norfolk, Virginia, to trafficking more than $150,361 worth of juvenile American eels, aka “elvers” or “glass eels,” in violation of the...
View ArticleGlassblowers Society to Meet at Campus Laboratory
Glassblower Sally Prasch with an oven in the university laboratory.The campus will host the American Scientific Glassblowers Society’s Northeast Section meeting on Saturday, April 15 from 10 a.m. read...
View ArticleMaine Fisherman Pleads Guilty for Illegally Trafficking American Eels
Today, Richard Austin pleaded guilty in federal district court in Norfolk, Virginia, to trafficking juvenile American eels, aka “elvers” or “glass eels,” in violation of the Lacey Act, announced Acting...
View ArticleStacy Howard
University of Arizona during the 153rd Commencement ceremony on May 12, produced a short film for her senior thesis about a young girl who must live with her traditional Navajo grandmother as a...
View ArticleDevoted Penn State Alumni gift studio glass collection to Palmer Museum of Art
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — It was after a visit to Seattle—a mecca for studio glass collectors—that Arnold 'Arn' and Bette Hoffman really got hooked. But it wasn’t because they got to see where Dale...
View ArticleDateline Rice for May 23, 2017
Scientists at Rice University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have discovered that laser-induced graphene is a highly effective anti-fouling material and, when electrified, bacteria zapper....
View ArticleThe critical point in breaking the glass problem
Famously described as 'the deepest problem in solid state physics' by Nobel Laureate, Philip Andersen, the glass transition, by which a liquid transforms into a solid without freezing, is shedding its...
View ArticleWhat happens at the moving edge of crack?
It is said that a weak link determines the strength of the entire chain. Likewise, defects or small cracks in a solid material may ultimately determine the strength of that material – how well it will...
View ArticleRelief flight offers help for Puerto Rico; more supplies coming this week
Delta operated on Saturday a relief flight with 20,000 pounds of relief supplies and water, as well as humanitarian aid workers to San Juan. The airline also stood up temporary processing counters,...
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