Tomorrow, the museum opens a long-term installation of "Glass Beads of Ghana," an exhibition of powdered glass beads made from recycled glass that have been a fixture of West Africa's culture for ...

Tiny glass beads discovered in mountain caves about 25 miles from the shores of Lake Malawi in eastern-central Africa provide evidence that European trade in the continent’s hinterland was built on ...

Glass beads can form on the moon when molten droplets cool after a volcanic eruption or meteorite impact. Existing timelines suggest the moon had already cooled off past the point of volcanic ...