The Chelsea bombing that injured 29 people on September 17 might have hurt more, and possibly resulted in fatalities, if not for shatterproof glass. Following the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, ...

There is already construction happening at the George A. Smith Middle School in the Solanco School District. Now there could be an extra piece to the project: administrators are considering the ...

Soon, you might not have to worry about cleaning up shards of broken glass. All you'd have to do is pick the glass up -- in one complete piece. Inspired by the natural stiffness and strength of ...

When you think of life-saving automotive technology, your mind probably goes to airbags, seatbelts, crumple zones, and collision-avoidance technology. Something we generally take for granted, though, ...

TAIPEI -- On a tiny stand here at the Computex trade show is Moxbii, a Taiwanese company that specialises in screen protectors. While I normally give such exhibitors a miss, the company caught my eye ...

A new type of glass created by mimicking the nacre (or mother-of-pearl) structure in mollusc shells is ductile yet tough and highly resistant to impacts. The material could come in useful for ...