Among the many aspects of life impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, acrylic glass may not be the first to come to mind. However, for the makers of this transparent sheet product, COVID-19 has been a ...

The story of Plexiglas begins in the early 1930s, during a period of intense innovation in synthetic materials. German chemist Otto Röhm was perfecting his own version of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA ...

2005-08-30 04:00:00 PDT Black Rock City, Nev.-- At Burning Man, where revelers live by an unwritten code of group participation, Christian "Dicky" Davies, a 27-year-old antisocial from San Francisco, ...

Thermoplastics are amazingly versatile materials. Apply some heat, add a little force, and within seconds you’ve got a part. It’s not always quite that simple, but as [maxelrad] discovered, sometimes ...

Acrylic polymers such as poly(methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all ...

Nour Hadidi hadn't experienced anything like it since the Before Times. After nearly five months away from the stage, the comic played Toronto's Comedy Bar last Friday, the venue's first night back in ...

Billy Standley spent 18 years arranging his funeral. The body of Bill Standley, secured to his 1967 Harley Davidson, rests inside a plexiglass box before being lowered into the ground at the cemetery ...

CBS News Correspondent Bobbi Harley reports there's a new wrinkle in the search for eternal youth. From the warm sands of Miami's South Beach to the yoga studios in Beverly Hills, Americans' addiction ...

An extraordinary transparent car is set to fetch as much as $475,000 when it goes up for auction. The motor, dubbed the 'Ghost Car', is a Pontiac Deluxe Six which, bizarrely, has been covered in the ...

A 1939 Pontiac Plexiglas Deluxe Six "Ghost Car," and a rare 1932 Packard Twin Six Individual Custom Convertible Sedan, will up for auction July 30. Suzanne Ashe Suzanne Ashe has been covering ...

"I started having a panic attack." A man aboard a Frontier Airlines flight en route to Houston had to be restrained by fellow passengers on Wednesday after he began kicking seats and hitting a window, ...