Chilean love poet Pablo Neruda kept an array of multi-colored glasses at his beach house in Isla Negra, believing their color impacted the taste of his wine. The effect of color on taste relates to ...

Glass sponges - as the name suggests - have a glass-based skeleton composed of a network of glass needles, hooks, stars, and spheres. To achieve such a unique architecture they have to manipulate the ...

If you want to incorporate protruding three-dimensional features into a flat sheet of glass, the typical way of doing so involves heating that glass up and placing it in a mold. Those molds are costly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Does the shape of your glass affect the taste of the wine? Many wine experts and connoisseurs believe that it does. There are many ...

Beer drinkers in the United Kingdom are influenced by an optical illusion caused by the shape of a curved glass. According to a new study published this month (August 17) in PLoS ONE, certain glass ...

How quickly you down an alcoholic drink may depend on the shape of the glass you're holding, a new study suggests. In the study, participants were asked to drink beer from either a straight-sided ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Few forms so clearly reference the molten state of ...

Researchers have determined the three dimensional (3D) structure of a protein responsible for glass formation in sponges. They explain how the earliest and, in fact, the only known natural ...