MIT researchers have developed roof tiles that change color based on the temperature, turning white when it's hot to deflect heat and turning black when it's cold to absorb it. According to the team's ...

Wearing white clothes in the heat provides comfort and white umbrellas can protect the traffic police from sunlight. Why, then, would painting the roofs of buildings white not provide similar benefits ...

In a small workshop near Vicenza, Italy, artisans make traditional-looking roofing tiles with a hidden difference: Each module contains solar photovoltaic cells. The family-owned company that makes ...

The Tesla solar roof tiles the company unveiled last year, which look like regular roof tiles and yet have roughly equivalent efficiency of traditional solar power gathering cells, will be up for ...

(JNS) Roof tiles dating back over 2,000 years uncovered just outside the Old City of Jerusalem provide a tangible connection to the story of Hanukkah, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced. The ...