Idaho Falls harbors a hidden retail paradise where savvy shoppers discover pre-loved treasures at St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store, transforming ordinary shopping trips into extraordinary adventures ...

Glassy materials are everywhere, with applications far exceeding windowpanes and drinking glasses. They range from bioactive ...

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A first-person look at visiting Capitol Reef’s Glass Mountain, a subtle but striking geological surprise hidden deep in ...

Capitol Reef National Park in Utah is home to Glass Mountain, a 15-foot mound made of selenite and hidden deep in the desert. Here's how you can visit the formation.

This photo shows furnace-hot bottles moving through a production line. Straight out of the furnace, new glass bottles move down the manufacturing line. Credit: Owens-Illinois Americans dispose of some ...

When an ancient Roman resident of the coastal city Herculaneum was struck down by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, what happened to his brain became a scientific sensation. Plaster body casts of ...

Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, a new study confirms. By Franz Lidz Five years ago Italian researchers ...

A rare form of dark-colored organic glass, discovered inside the skull of a victim from the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when an intense but short-lived ash cloud superheated the ...

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