A fire service has issued an alert to UK households after 40 firefighters were called to battle a fire caused by reflecting sunlight. On Tuesday afternoon, 40 firefighters were sent to a blaze in ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — One morning late last year, an RV pulled into a parking lot on the outskirts of Silicon Valley. Inside it was a blue Ikea bag with huge balloons, and metal tanks full of ...

There they would burst, dispersing their load of sun-reflecting sulfur dioxide particles and cool the Earth, just a tiny bit. Some dismissed it as a stunt. It is not clear if any particles were ...

But Reflect Orbital's ambitions are larger than a single satellite. According to Nowack, the company is developing an entire constellation of satellites "to sell sunlight to thousands of solar ...

"It's melting and bubbling up all over," she said. The reason? Sunlight is reflecting off the high efficiency windows on her neighbor's home, which then focuses the light like a laser beam on her ...

A few months later, they announced an even more potent formulation that increased sunlight reflection to 98 percent. The paint’s properties are almost superheroic. It can make surfaces as much ...

The world’s whitest paint just slimmed down, making the sunlight-reflecting pigment light enough to adorn planes, cars, and trains. Back in 2021, Xiulin Ruan, a mechanical engineering professor ...

The startup is developing satellites that would deploy large mirrors to precisely reflect sunlight onto specific points on the ground. Rings of satellites in sun-synchronous orbit would follow the ...

Outdoor trials expected to start as soon as 2027 will include 'brightening clouds' in order to reflect sunlight away from Earth. Marine Cloud Brightening involves ships spraying saltwater into the ...