The redesign of the 24-inch iMac could one day be replaced by a more striking version, with Apple continuing to consider producing an iMac suspended in a single sheet of curved glass. Apple's ...

Take a look at your smartphone. The chances are incredibly high that the sheets of glass covering the front and back come from a company called Corning. You almost certainly know it by its more famous ...

If you've ever seen a picture of a driver behind the controls of the earliest automobiles, you might notice that they were just sitting out in the open. There were no cabins, let alone windows. This ...

It's a lovely summer weekend morning. We relax in our living room with the sunlight coming gently through the windows. We glance outside and can see the green leaves and watch birds in the yard. We ...

Seven years ago Alastair Pilkington, a glass expert, whose father Sir Harry is chief of Britain’s great Pilkington glass company, was helping his wife wash dishes. Watching the suds floating on the ...