A summertime exhibition of Nadia Myre and Skawennati’s work reconstructs colonial memory and imagines an Indigenous future ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed when ancient lunar volcanoes spewed molten rock. That rock quickly cooled and ...

French sculptor Jean-Michel Othoniel has transformed the southern French city of Avignon into a dazzling installation with thousands of hand-blown glass beads. Not even the artist himself knows ...

Glass beads on the surface of the Moon could provide a readily accessible source of water for future missions, an analysis of soil samples from the Chinese Chang'e-5 mission suggests.

These glass beads, however, contain water that wasn't originally on the moon. Instead, the beads and the water within them were formed as a result of impacts from meteorites at immense speeds.

Glass beads were a key component of trade between Europeans and Indigenous Americans during early interactions between the two continents. One of the key actors in these networks was the Wendat ...

The moon was once a hive of volcanic activity. But while the vents have remained inactive and dormant for tens of millions of years or more, the satellite retains evidence of its once volatile past – ...

Published in 2017, Dumont's Glass Beads tells the story of four Indigenous friends navigating life off-reserve and wrestling with identity, racism, cultural disinheritance, addictions and friendships.

Shiny glass beads from the Moon are bringing scientists one step closer to understanding how future astronauts might survive the seemingly barren lunar terrain, and how the Solar System evolves today.

Although Glass Beads is billed as a collection of short stories, it works excellently as a panoramic, polyphonic Bildungsroman, following the lives of four Indigenous friends from the early 1990s to ...

Water was embedded in tiny glass beads in the lunar dirt where meteorite impacts occur. These shiny, multicolored glass beads were in samples returned from the moon by China in 2020.