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This Material Can Soak Up Sunlight Then Release Heat On Demand
Imagine clothes, houses or cars that soaked up heat during the day and then released it on demand when things turned cold. That’s exactly what a new material made at MIT could provide in the future.
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The Middle East Could Become Too Hot For Human Life Within The Next Century
The authors of stunning new study on climate change in the Middle East start off with a very symmetrical observation: The region that gives the world so much of its fuel could be made dangerously hot by the emissions created by that fuel — unless we as a planet decide to mitigate our CO2 emissions.
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This Material Wouldn’t Melt, Even At The Centre Of The Earth
Researchers have discovered a material that could break the record for the highest melting point of any substance.
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A New Super-Thin Coating Could Cool Buildings Without AC
When it’s hot out, buildings have a hard time staying cool: bombarded with ambient heat and generating yet more inside, their air conditioning systems have to work hard to keep temperatures down. Now, a new super-thin coating developed at Stanford could be applied to buildings to help them cool themselves more effectively.