Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. As workplaces continue to transform rapidly, transparent ...

Once confined to the world of Star Trek, transparent aluminum is now very much a reality, and can have significant real-world applications. Transparent aluminum, also known as aluminum oxynitride, is ...

It looks like a tube made of glass but it’s actually aluminum. Well, aluminum with an asterisk beside it — this is not elemental aluminum but rather a material made using it. We got onto the buzz ...

Glass might soon have some competition from an unlikely rival – bamboo. Scientists in China have turned regular old bamboo into a transparent material that’s also resistant to fire and water, and ...