The complex-shaped ... brittlestar crystals with the ultimate goal of building complex arrays of micro-lenses. Most lenses today are built by carefully grinding down a piece of glass.

or liquid crystal elastomer. LCEs are class of bendy, elastic materials can stretch and expand with heat or in a chemical bath. It lifts a slate of glass 175 times its own weight Scientists have ...

I wake up wanting to make things.” Jewelry sold at Crystal's Treasure Box features sea glass ranging in shape and color. (Larissa Beriswill - The Morning Journal) With sea glass, Nevedale said ...