Most commonly featured on cabinets, fluted glass has become popular for its aesthetic and practical appeal. With slightly textured glass, it offers more privacy than transparent cabinet doors ...

Diane's colorful plates look beautiful behind her glass kitchen cabinets, but they're just as impactful on her open shelving, offering yet more opportunity to introduce vibrancy to a neutral kitchen.

“The results are amazing, that a piece of wood can be as strong as glass,” says Hu, who highlighted the features of transparent wood in the 2023 Annual Review of Materials Research.

So, they used their transparent wood to replace a glass window in a birdhouse. Under a heat lamp, the interior stayed nine to 11 degrees cooler than when it had a glass window.

Lots of glass surfaces can brighten up a room, but it also lets in too much heat as well as neighbors’ prying eyes. A new metamaterial is not only more transparent to light, but adds privacy ...

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 ...

Transparent wood promises to be an environmentally friendly substitute for glass or plastic used for making car windshields, see-through packaging and biomedical devices, according to a study.