Scientists have created the world’s whitest paint. It even made it into the Guinness World Records book. The people who made it hope that the paint can be used to help the world adapt to global warming. To explain the connection, The World’s host Marco Werman spoke to Xiulin Ruan, an engineer at Purdue University who developed the paint.
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