Keeping indoor spaces comfortable takes a lot of power. About half the energy Americans use in their homes goes toward heating and cooling, accounting for a sizable chunk of both utility bills and ...

Adding a white, reflective coating to a rooftop can help keep a house cooler in the summer and save on air-conditioning bills. But if you live in a city with cold winters, the same coating leads to ...

CLEVELAND —Minwax, an American brand of interior wood stains and clears, announced its 2025 Color of the Year, Violet. This color, available in the new Minwax Wood Finish Color Series Premium ...

Influencing the color of an object through alterations to the way light interacts with its surface is an important factor for both engineers and designers, with surface coatings providing one ...

When a rope is heated – either by friction or by fire – it may lose its structural integrity, subsequently breaking when put under load. A new surface coating, however, could cause ropes to change ...

In a step towards developing advanced materials for functional coatings, a research group has developed a technology that combines structural color coating with super water-repellent properties. The ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PPG (NYSE:PPG) today announced the release of new data showing the superior color and gloss retention performance of PPG CORAFLON® Platinum powder coating for ...

As with most things in life, there’s more to sweat than meets the eye. Dutch design researcher Paulien Routs has developed a sweat-sensitive textile coating that can be applied to workout wear to ...

An ultra-thin layer of a metal and a semiconductor could be applied to essentially any rough or flexible material to produce a vividly colored coating, researchers report. The technique, which ...

Trump lashed out when a reporter asked why he was focused on the Reflecting Pool, given U.S. military action in Iran. He said ...

BASF and Kentwood-based X-Rite Inc. said Wednesday that they now offer the pharmaceutical industry an easy-to-handle on-site approach to color coating tablets by combining X-Rite's ColorEye XTH ...