For decades researchers have been exploring how to store data in glass because of its potential to hold information for a long time — eons — without applying power. A special type of glass that ...

A glass capable of storing information in three dimensions, erasing it, and rewriting it indefinitely, simply by using light.

Image of rough colloidal ellipsoids, the systems investigated by the researchers. Credit: Liang et al The so-called glass transition is the process by which some liquid-like materials become ...

Photochromic lenses, or chameleon lenses, have a variable light transmission. This means that they change transparency depending on the lighting. When they get ultraviolet rays, the lenses get dark, ...