A tiny glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering scientists a glimpse into the moon's hidden depths and providing insight into the violent forces that helped shape the ...

Glass beads were a key component of trade between Europeans and Indigenous Americans during early interactions between the ...

copper and glass beads, by Kapwani Kiwanga. (Valentina Mori) "These little, tiny, miniscule units of glass shaped our modern and postmodern world," said Kiwanga from her studio in Rome before the ...

They focused their analysis on lunar glass beads — small spherical or egg-shaped glass pieces formed by volcanic activity or impact events like when rocks from space smash the moon’s surface.

Typically, glass and ceramics are shaped in a mold or are 3D printed in ... a cross-linked polycaprolactone polymer with tiny beads of silica suspended in it, like raisins in raisin bread.

Tiny glass beads suggest the moon had active volcanoes when dinosaurs roamed Earth Sep 7, 2024 Scientists discover drier mantle on moon's farside, offering potential insight on lunar evolution ...

Because it is in flight when it melts and then cools again, Miljkovic says, that molten material hardens into a spherical shape, falling back to the ground as glass beads. The researchers analyzed ...

Photo from Paolo Bellintani Brushing away the dirt covering a Bronze Age village in northern Italy, archaeologists unearthed thousands of ancient glass beads. The vibrant artifacts offered a ...