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 ...

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 ...