NOT only the student who is entering, or has just entered, that mystic land of chemical research, but also the ordinary student of chemistry who wishes to be more than a mere beginner, or a ...
WASHINGTON -- Inserting air into hot glass to form a bubble has been used to make glass objects since Roman times. In new work, researchers apply these same glass blowing principles on a microscopic ...
Van Leeuwenhoek's microscope's were simple gadgets by today's standards, with a spike to hold the object being studied and a single magnifying lens to look through. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, the 17 ...
Do you have plans this weekend? May we suggest a relaxed evening of crushing, rolling, and blowing — glass, of course. Rural ...
In his Boyle Heights studio, Jaime Guerrero dips the tip of a long blowpipe into a 2,000-degree furnace and begins the process of inflating the glob of molten glass with little puffs of air.