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Volkswagen Put An Invisible Layer Of Silver In Its New Windshields To Melt Away Snow
Self-heating windows have existed for decades. However, they have have always relied on near-invisible wires that can be a distraction when revealed by oncoming headlights. So instead of wires, the laminated glass used in Volkswagen’s new windshields includes an ultra-thin invisible layer of silver connected to the vehicle’s electrical system so that it heats up…
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Why Glass Bottles Shatter At The Bottom When You Smack The Top With Your Bare Hands
Video: There’s nothing quite like using the scientific method to figure out what’s happening in a silly party trick that we’ve seen way too many times (if you’ve been to bad parties, at least): The ol’ smack the top of a glass bottle and watch the bottom burst out in shards gag.
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Watch Glass Explode In Spectacular Slow Motion
Video: Glass can explode, and seeing it happen in slow motion is damn incredible. The Slow Mo Guys pointed the Phantom V2511 high-speed camera at a Pyrex glass measuring cup that was heated with a torch and then doused in cold water to capture the exploding glass (something about the sudden temperature change isn’t good…
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Optical Data Storage Squeezes 360TB On To A Quartz Disc, Forever
Want to make sure you back something up indefinitely? Then you could do worse than a digital data storage technique that uses laser light to store 360 terabytes of information on nanostructured quartz for up to 14 billion years.