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Video: The MIT Glass Lab — where art meets science

Melanie Gonick, MIT News Office

May 17, 2013

Photo of molten red glass in a blob at the end of a pole

Watch the video at: http://video.mit.edu/watch/mit-glass-lab-where-art-meets-science-24645/

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