Researchers in Australia are working on a way to lower the cost of producing solar thermal energy by as much as 40% with the help of shatterproof rear-view mirrors originally designed for cars. That ...

Mike Every knows about grinding glass—and he doesn’t like it. The second-year physics major from Saugerties, N.Y., is an amateur telescope maker with an idea for producing lightweight mirrors out of ...

Researchers have developed a new way to produce and shape large, high-quality mirrors that are much thinner than the primary mirrors previously used for telescopes deployed in space. The resulting ...

A team of Australian scientists is using plastic mirrors in solar thermal systems. These are lighter and cheaper than mirrors made of glass, say the researchers. The mirror consists of an ...

An Australian researcher has invented plastic auto side mirrors and they're being exported to the U.S. Colin Hall, a senior research fellow at the Future Industries Institute at the University of ...