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Stress can impede your productivity and adversely affect your ability to accomplish your tasks.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A problem plaguing physicists across the globe for centuries has finally made a leap towards resolution.

Through a meticulous restoration process, Elding Oscarson converted two 19th Century buildings into No Picnic's headquarters by installing reflecting glass walls.

Rapid cooling of ordinary water or compression of ordinary ice: either of these can transform normal H2O into an exotic substance that resembles glass in its transparency, brittleness, hardness, and luster. Unlike everyday ice, which has a highly organized crystalline structure, this glass-like material's molecules are arranged in a random, disorganized way. Scientists have studied glassy water for decades, but the exact temperature at which water acquires glass-like properties has been the subject of heated debate for years, due to the difficulty of manipulating pure glassy water in laboratories.

The new Champagne bar at London’s May Fair Hotel does not pour bubbly by the glass, serve fizzy cocktails, or, for that matter, even have a bar.

The iPhone 5 rumors continue , and this time they're backing up something we've suspected for a while--Apple's next phone may be all-metal. It also looks to be simply a better phone all-round. A few rumors from a while back suggested that Apple's next iPhone revamp would ditch the glass back and adopt a metal one instead--added to the stainless steel antenna-frame of the iPhone 4, this means the iPhone 5 would be an all-metal affair.

In certain circles, a high price connotes quality, and few sectors of the marketplace have more expertly exploited this peculiar perception than the distilled-spirits industry, which turns out numerous expensive and stylish bottles whose contents make little impression in the glass.