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Extreme events devastate forests, erasing ecosystems and communities, familiar to researchers.

WEST LAFAYETTE — Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems and local communities. Researchers have become quite familiar with such attention-grabbing events over the years. They know less, however, about the more common moderate-severity disturbances, su ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In recent years, Purdue University’s Katy Rainey and Keith Cherkauer have worked to predict soybean biomass from drone imagery in Indiana.  “We’re now expanding that capability to all the public soybean breeding programs in...

In recent years, Purdue University’s Katy Rainey and Keith Cherkauer have worked to predict soybean biomass from drone imagery in Indiana.

In recent years, Purdue University’s Katy Rainey and Keith Cherkauer have worked to predict soybean biomass from drone imagery in Indiana.

With temperatures on the moon ranging from minus 410 to a scorching 250 degrees Fahrenheit, it’s an understatement to say that humans will need habitats with heat and air conditioning to survive there long term.

Researchers at Purdue University in Indiana, USA, having already developed ‘the world’s whitest paint’, have gone a step further and created a formulation [...]

The world's whitest paint – seen in this year's edition of Guinness World Records and "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" – keeps surfaces so cool that it could reduce the need for air conditioning.

The ultra-white coating, developed at Purdue University in Indiana, reflects up to 97.9 per cent of sunlight, keeping vehicles cool.

The world’s whitest paint – seen in this year’s edition of Guinness World Records and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” – keeps surfaces so cool that it could reduce the need for air conditioning. Now the Purdue University researchers who created the paint have developed a new formulation that is thinner and lighter – ideal for radiating heat away from cars, trains and airplanes.