Green walls can reduce heat lost by buildings by over 30% in temperate climates
They look great and can help keep heating bills low.
Tag: heat
Worsening heatwaves could kill more than 8 million people by 2100
Not what I like to hear.
Heatwaves are getting hotter, longer, more frequent globally
It's happening globally, but not all regions are affected equally.
Volcano-dwelling beetle inspires new ‘passive cooling’ material
It helps disperse heat and reflect sunlight.
Australia records its hottest day ever — while burning from a thousand bushfires
A nationwide average temperature of 40.9 degrees Celsius this Tuesday set a new record for the land down under.
The recent heatwave in Europe between 1.5 to 3.0 °C hotter due to man-made climate heating
Things definitely heated up.
More green spaces can help some cities keep cool
Cities can be stifling.
Atom-thick heat shield could make smartphones even thinner
A new insulating material that's 50,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper could make electronics even more compact.
Atom-thin insulators pave the way to new, thinner devices
Size does matter.
It’s so hot in Finland’s Lapland the reindeer have hit the beach
They didn't seem to care about anything other than cooling down.
Paris registers all-time hottest day amid Europe’s heatwave
Climate experts at the UK’s Met Office said there’s “no doubt” climate change is playing a role in the heatwave, ...
New nanodevice converts wasted heat into more battery life
A clever device runs at the fringe of physics to solve our wasted energy problems.
NASA puts InSight experiment on hold because one stubborn rock is blocking their instruments
InSight picked scissors, so it lost to rock.
Desert ants’ complex behavior is actually built from very simple interactions
The colonies work similarly to a brain, actually.
Portugal and Spain brace for record-breaking temperatures
I don't wanna say it's global warming, but it sure quacks like global warming.
Unusual heat waves in Britain are revealing traces of ancient civilisations
Heat is bringing out ancient features.
Chaotic cities are cooler than orderly ones, researchers report
Being science, 'cool' here refers to temperatures.
New eco-friendly AC uses only water to cool down air, saves on the energy bill to boot
And it will quench your thirst!
Why does hot water freezes faster than cold water? Enter the Mpemba effect
Physics, the original troll.
Climate-change-induced heat will kill tens of thousands of Americans every year by 2090
Or as the experts call it, Chinese-hoax-induced heat.
Thermal diode could allow computers to one day function on heat alone
No more fans for us!
Swiss technology can store heat in the summer to warm up your home all winter
It's like pickling heat.
Douglas fir forests are buckling under the heat, pausing their growth altogether
Silly trees, can't they set the thermostat lower, like the rest of us?
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is heating its upper atmosphere
The swirling gases could shed light on the atmosphere of other planets within and outside of our solar system.
New class of star-stripped super-Earths discovered
Astrophysicists have discovered a new class of exoplanets whose atmospheres and volatile elements have been blown away by the star ...
In 18 years, man-made heat doubled in oceans
After they studied how much man-made heat got sucked by the world's oceans in the past 150 years, researchers found ...
Who says incandescent bulbs have to waste energy: MIT design is more efficient than LEDs
Though incandescent light bulbs have been used to light homes for more than a hundreds years, and still do so ...
New MIT material can soak up solar heat and release it on demand
A team of researchers from MIT created a material that can make use of solar energy in a novel way, ...
Insulating nanowire cloth that traps heat perfectly could help tackle climate change
Researchers at Stanford University coated flexible textile fibers with metallic nanowires to form a cohesive network that acts as a ...
Cooling of the future: just send the heat into space
Since ancient times, people living in hot climates learned if they paint their rooftops white, then their quarters would stay ...
Cassini finds that Saturn Moon is a powerhouse
It's been quite a while since we published anything about the Cassini mission, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been ...
