A furnace produced what looked "like a lava flow" after it cracked and leaked 340 tonnes of molten glass, a senior firefighter has said. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, 13 crews tackled the ...

Firefighters are tackling an incident at a glass factory where molten glass has leaked from a furnace. Crews from Essex Fire and Rescue were called at 02:16 GMT to an industrial unit on Edinburgh Way ...

Our universe is always being explored, and a recent discovery was made about the catchily named exoplanet HD 189733 b. This particular planet, dubbed a "hot Jupiter," stinks like rotten eggs due to an ...

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, ...

MACON COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) — Shortly after firefighters cleared the scene of the Fuyao glass plant in Macon County on Sunday — after working to cool down leaking molten glass for about nine hours — ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Few forms so clearly reference the molten state of ...

LA PLUME TWP. – Keystone College’s holiday ornament glass-blowing workshops held Saturday were the hottest tickets in town, in two ways. The one-hour segments held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Wilbur ...

Much less than 1% of the human population ever has an opportunity to work with hot, molten glass, but it’s all possible at Spiro Lyon Glass. Located in a eye-catching building along Highway 82 a ...

Parked in the RIT glass hot shop, a first-of-its-kind device carries out a process sitting at the intersection of material, machine and maker. The technological marvel is the world’s first molten ...

While some byproducts recall an idyllic piece of Americana, others remind us that the past is not always so bright and cheerful. Trinitite, created unintentionally during the development of the first ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. The glass artist Deborah Czeresko became known to a ...