Katharine Burr Blodgett made a breakthrough when she discovered ‘invisible glass’

The 1930s prove to be an exceptional decade for research at the General Electric Company. Katharine Burr Blodgett works closely alongside her boss, Irving Langmuir, who wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932. In 1938 Blodgett’s meticulous experiments with thin film coatings on solid surfaces lead to her most important breakthrough: nonreflecting glass. GE’s…

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Netflix walks away from its deal to buy Warner Bros. after Paramount came back with a better offer

The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory approval. However, we’ve always been disciplined, and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance’s latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive, so we are declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid. We believe we would have been…

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2026 PGA Awards Winners List

The first winners of the 37th annual PGA Awards were revealed Thursday, with its Children’s, Sports, Shortform and Innovation categories in the spotlight. See the list below. Thursday’s winners lead up to the Producers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday in Los Angeles. Related Stories Below The Line 2026 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Guilds, Tonys &…

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