Concrete contractors are no strangers to project changes. Advance Construction, Vancouver, B.C., recently was tasked with the job of turning two purpose built slabs specified for vinyl tile into ...

Recent heatwaves have struck areas like Northern Europe and the Pacific Northwest that have traditionally gotten by without much air conditioning. As people in those regions adjust to the new reality, ...

Brighter LEDs and better solar cells could be developed using the least reflective coating ever made. Researchers found that depositing an array of angled silicon-dioxide nanorods on a surface ...

Material Appearance and Reflectance Modeling is an interdisciplinary field that melds principles from computer graphics, computer vision and optics to quantitatively describe how surfaces interact ...