The Anchor Hocking Pyrex plant in Charleroi, Washington County plans to shut down for good Friday. A last batch of glass was made at 7 a.m., ending a 132-year business, known globally for making Pyrex ...

The fighting continues in the Middle East, and oil’s back on the move, as the clock ticks on President Donald Trump’s five-day deadline for resolving differences with Iran. That’s the backdrop for ...

Since 1948, scientists have wondered: If you could cool a glass over an extremely long period of time, would it eventually form an amorphous structure that behaves exactly like a crystalline lattice—a ...

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Reporter Paul Linnman and photographer Doug Brazil visited the Oregon Coast on November 12, 1970 during what eventually became known as the Exploding Whale Incident. (KATU) FLORENCE, Ore. (Amazing ...

Burning something in the oven is always a bummer, but what's considerably worse is hearing the sound of glass shattering inside the appliance. This doesn't happen so frequently, but when it does, it ...

A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate a new robotic data storage system that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now ...

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth ...

PCWorld examines Microsoft’s Project Silica breakthrough, which now uses common borosilicate glass like Pyrex for ultra-long-term data storage lasting over 10,000 years. This technology addresses ...

A supercharged neutrino that smashed into our planet in 2023 may have been spit out by an exploding primordial black hole with a "dark charge." If true, this theory could lead to a definitive catalog ...