Borosilicate glass has been around since the 1800s, when the son of a window maker invented the process of adding boric oxide to the standard recipe, giving it an unusual strength. We know it as the ...

There was a time when ordering some glassware from a distributor meant making a sizable minimum order, sending a check in the mail and waiting weeks for a box full of — hopefully intact — glassware to ...

Ask non-scientists to picture a laboratory, and the odds are that they will imagine the kind of space that a contemporary chemist would work in, complete with lab bench, fume cupboard, sink and ...