This is one of those things that just doesn't sound like it should work at all: Somehow melting together glass and metal to combine into one, unified, part-glass/part-metal mongrel whole. If it could ...

Traditionally, welding has been limited to materials that share similar properties, so it's tough to make even aluminum and steel join forces. But now, scientists from Heriot-Watt University are ...

Achieving economical, high-quality laser-welding of glass has long posed a major challenge for materials processors, according industrial laser and toolmaker Trumpf. But now the laser specialist has ...