The list of materials capable of being extruded through a 3D printer seems to grow by the week, moving well beyond plastics, food and metals to now include another unlikely substance: glass. And while ...

MANCHESTER -- There's more to it than how to handle the blowpipe, but that's where it starts. For several years I've wandered into Manchester Hot Glass, Andrew Weill's glassmaking shop and studio on ...

You begin to feel the burn the moment you walk into Slow Burn Glass Studio in Oakland’s industrial warehouse district. The heat and roaring noise draw you toward the neon-orange glow emanating from ...

IGNACIO – Observers from around the country gathered last weekend in Ignacio to watch local glass blowing master Roger Dale turn bulbs of molten glass into works of art. About 250 people, from Vermont ...

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 ...

Scientists can easily explain the structural order that makes steel and aluminum out of molten metal. And they have discovered the molecular changes that take place as water turns to ice. But, despite ...

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 ...

— Numerous fire companies are on the scene of the rupture of a tank of molten glass at local manufacturing plant at this hour. The tank break, as the incident is referred to, took place at the Anchor ...

Mothers always say, “Don’t run with scissors.” But running with molten glass? That’s how artist Etsuko Ichikawa discovered the concept of drawing with it. It was at the Pilchuck Glass School in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The island of Murano off the coast of Venice, Italy, is famous for its glass factories. Craftsmen have been creating unbelievable glass wares here since 1291. Watch as ...

ZANESVILLE, Ohio — Hours after this city's fire chief met with engineers at a glass plant Monday to talk about emergency preparedness, 300,000 tons of molten glass spilled like a volcano from a ...

Workers at a Northeast Portland plant are cleaning up the rest of a molten glass spill that firefighters contained and cooled down Friday night. Fire crews were called at about 9 p.m. to the glass ...