Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Green plants and shelf in front of glass block windows - Ina Smirnova/Getty Images Glass block windows were trendy in the 1980s, ...

As sunlight passes through a building's windows it can cause indoor temperatures to rise, to the point that the structure's power-hungry air conditioning system has to be used. A new switchable window ...

(Nanowerk News) An international research team led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has invented a ‘smart’ window material that controls heat transmission ...

The new dynamic windows would be able to switch between a normal transparent mode that lets in light and heat, a mode that blocks heat but remains transparent to light, and a tinted mode that blocks ...