"Bulletproof" car windows are made by layering multiple materials together like glass, acrylic, and PVB. It's more accurate ...

Researchers discover how molecules in ancient glass rearrange and recombine with minerals over centuries to form a patina of photonic crystals -- ordered arrangements of atoms that filter and reflect ...

Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay into bricks, ...

Bullet-resistant car windows look deceptively ordinary, yet every pane is a small engineering project built to catch and slow ...