Pine cones are pretty smart for things with no brains, enough so that scientists have copied them to create a unique window shading system. The setup blocks sunlight in the summer and lets it through ...

As millions of American face extreme temperatures, many people are searching for ways to stay cool. Some Facebook users claim shading an outdoor AC unit – known as a condenser – improves its ...

Chances are that somewhere this very moment an engineer has been called into the control room five minutes before a live broadcast because the director noticed that one of the cameras “just doesn't ...

An international research group has conducted a comprehensive review of all designs and control strategies for PV-integrated shading devices (PVSDs), in order to help bring the technology closer to ...

THE VISUAL IMAGE is inherently ambiguous: an image of a person on the retina would be the same size for a dwarf seen from up close or a giant viewed from a dis­tance. Perception is partly a matter of ...