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

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

Ultrahigh-reflectance mirrors are essential optical elements of the most sophisticated optical instruments devised over the entire frequency spectrum. In the X-ray regime, super-polished mirrors with ...

Figure 1: Calculated peak reflectivity, interaction length and reflection energy bandwidth for X-rays in Bragg backscattering from diamond for all allowed reflections with Bragg energies E H up to 30 ...

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 ...

The view of Earth from space is famously familiar—bright blue ocean, swirling gyres of white clouds, touches of terrestrial green. The luminosity of this image is the result of the sun’s rays shining ...

A new analysis of the Northern Hemisphere’s “albedo feedback” over a 30-year period concludes that the region’s loss of reflectivity due to snow and sea ice decline is more than double what ...

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 ...

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 ...