When a heatwave hits, temperatures in cities can become even more extreme as all that concrete and asphalt absorbs a ton of sunlight. One Los Angeles neighbourhood is testing out a new strategy to ...

The world was not short of incredible but completely bizarre discoveries, yet some of them did turn our heads. Such was the invention of the ‘whitest’ paint in the world, made by scientists in a lab ...

A zoomed-in shot of a paint roller being applied to a roof. The roller is white with its application product. In the right setting, a cool-roof coating can cut the energy consumption of a building by ...

A new superwhite paint is so reflective that it can cool a surface to below the surrounding air temperature, even under sunlight. It could help reduce the use of energy-intensive air conditioning in ...