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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since at least December 2020, online advertisements have displayed a picture of a Ziplock bag covering a car's side mirror. The ads appeared to promise a handy trick for drivers: The ad read: "Put A ...