While the word ‘emergy’ might raise a red flag for most spell-check systems, it isn’t a typo. Rather, it’s an analysis theory that provides an energy-related base for assessing the properties of “products and services of social, economic and ecological compound systems,” say researchers from the Institute of Economics and Management, Shanghai University of Electric […]

A new type of glass engineered by Penn State University researchers aims to cut glass manufacturing carbon dioxide emissions in half. The material, dubbed LionGlass, was designed to use less energy to produce while remaining more damage resistant than standard soda lime silicate glass. Researchers recently filed a patent application and are in the process […]

(This article was updated June 28, 2023.) Researchers at the University of Maryland found that people remember information better when it’s presented in virtual environments. Perhaps that was the premise employed by thin-glass manufacturer Corning Inc. when it hosted its “Advanced Windows Virtual Experience” last week. The company used Spatial.io, a web-based, virtual meeting platform, […]

Researchers at Wuhan University in China seek to develop hydrogel glass that will keep buildings and living spaces cooler, without the loss of visibility to the outdoors. According to a research article published in the journal Frontiers of Optoelectronics and titled Broadband Light Management in Hydrogel Glass for Energy Efficient Windows that Proposes Designing Hydrogel […]