When designing a building façade, architects and owners must determine the necessary level of glass transparency. Some ...

Atlas Roofing announces an enhanced solar reflectivity performance across its Pinnacle® Sun shingle line, delivering ...

Scientists in Hong Kong have demonstrated a new ultra-white ceramic material that can drastically cool buildings by reflecting sunlight and heat at record highs. The beetle-inspired material gets its ...

Two weeks ago, I talked about an introduction to radar and how it works on a basic level. This time, we are looking into radar reflectivity specifically, the most popular product of weather radar.

Earth is reflecting less sunlight, and absorbing more heat, than it did several decades ago. Global warming is advancing faster than climate models predicted, with observed temperatures exceeding ...

Engineers have found a way to make liquid metals switch between reflective surfaces or those that scatter light. The transition only requires a small zap of electricity and could be used to make ...

Earth is literally losing some of its shine. New readings from NASA’s long‑running satellite missions show that the planet is reflecting slightly less sunlight back into space, a subtle shift that ...

Observations confirmed that dark coating can reduce satellite reflectivity by half. There are concerns that numerous artificial satellites in orbit could impair astronomical observations, but these ...