If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. An Indian architect has come up with an astounding new way to cool buildings and homes ...

Thousands of buildings across the United States are staying cool with the help of cutting-edge batteries made from one of the world’s simplest materials: ice. When electricity is cheap ...

By coating each surface with a different material, the wall can stay as cool as possible. Retrofitting existing buildings would be relatively easy, Cheng says, and would involve mounting ...

It’s a new biodegradable building material that mimics elephant skin and can keep buildings cool without relying on air conditioning or electricity. Created by a team at Nanyang Technological ...

The Italian "starchitects" got into the shipping container building game in the 1990s, roughly a decade after these types of buildings first started appearing. (Shipping containers were invented ...

Researchers at Princeton and UCLA have developed a passive mechanism to cool buildings in the summer and warm them in the winter. In an article published June 27 in the journal Cell Reports ...

Researchers at UCLA and their colleagues have now found an affordable and scalable process to cool buildings in the summer and heat them in the winter. Radiant heat, which is felt whenever a hot ...

Desiccants that pull water out of the air could help cool buildings more efficiently A surprising set of materials could soon help make more efficient air conditioners that don’t overtax the ...

An Indian architect has come up with an astounding new way to cool buildings and homes that don't rely on electricity or ...