NASA Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan drives a moon buggy at the lunar Taurus-Littrow Valley landing site in 1972. No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads ...

Shiny glass beads from the Moon are bringing scientists one step closer to understanding how future astronauts might survive the seemingly barren lunar terrain, and how the Solar System evolves today.

Much before the blow-pipe invention in the West, a technological leap in glass technology was achieved in the Indian subcontinent which transformed glass bead production, according to Alok Kumar ...

Researchers tested biodegradable glass beads in the lab, in soil, and even in mice to see how the materials broke down over time. Reading time 2 minutes Glass can be cleaned and reused many times, but ...

Glass Beads of Ghana. Where: Newark Museum, 49 Washington St., Newark. When: Through June 15, 2009. Noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and ...

An analysis of artifacts retrieved from Bronze Age burial sites reveals that Denmark and ancient Egypt traded with one another 3,400 years ago, and possibly practiced similar religious rituals.

A new study finds high levels of arsenic and lead in imported Chinese glass beads prompting the American Glass Bead Manufacturers' Association to call for state and federal standards to limit the ...