A team of UCLA engineers and researchers has developed a new technique to make it feel up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit cooler ...

In the late 2010s, when Assistant Professor Flavio Lehner worked for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, ...

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2026? Check your progress and revise your topics through this quiz on Environment and ...

Beginning in the 1960s, satellite instruments have measured Earth's reflected broadband shortwave radiation and emitted ...

Researchers have simulated 160 cases of PV rooftop installation in southern and northern Italy. Among changing parameters ...

Ocean waters typically have a low albedo due to their dark colour. Image: Shutterstock Some surfaces, like water, can have varying albedo values. Normally, the surface of the ocean is dark, meaning ...

2- metallic glossy materials cannot be dark: even when creating a metallic material with black Albedo, Black Ambient Occlusion, ao_light_affect=1, there is always a bright rimlight around metallic ...

(b) The albedo presents a marked non-Lambertian behavior, with lowest values near noon and highest values corresponding to low phase angles (i.e., Sun behind the observer). (c) Thermal inertia values ...

Microsoft appears to be eliminating the cheapest models in its existing Surface Laptop and Surface Pro PCs, effectively raising the minimum price. But Microsoft is also adding discounts, too.

While surfaces with a high albedo reflect sunlight and keep our planet cool, surfaces with a low albedo, like rocks or water, absorb sunlight and warm up. Snow's albedo does more than just keep itself ...