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Beyond shade: Researchers improve radiant cooling to make outdoor temperatures feel cooler

A team of UCLA engineers and researchers has developed a new technique to make it feel up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit cooler outside while preserving a sense of safe and open space.

Featured in Nature Sustainability, the UCLA-led study demonstrated a new way to harness radiant cooling. Instead of relying on dark and windowless spaces, such as a tunnel, to create radiant cooling that raises safety concerns for public outdoor spaces, the new approach combines water-cooled aluminum panels and see-through, infrared-reflective thin polymer film, which allows both efficient cooling and visibility—a top priority, especially for residents in urban communities.

As climate change accelerates, are occurring with greater intensity and frequency, threatening the safety of people who spend significant time outdoors.

“Wood Film Makes Batteries Nearly Unbreakable”: US Scientists Unleash Breakthrough Tech That Boosts EV Safety and Extends Battery Life by a Stunning 60 Percent

IN A NUTSHELL 🌿 Lignin-based separators improve the safety and extend the life of lithium-ion batteries by 60 percent. 🔥 These separators remain stable at temperatures up to 572°F, significantly reducing the risk of thermal runaway. 🌍 The use of a solvent-free dry process ensures eco-friendly and scalable battery production with zero waste. 🔋 This

A promising pathway for the electrical switching of altermagnetism

The ability to switch magnetism, or, in other words, to change the orientation of a material’s magnetic moments, using only electricity, could open new opportunities for the efficient storage of data in hard drives and other magnetic memory devices. While the electrical switching of magnetism has been a long-sought-after research goal, it has so far proved to be difficult to realize.

Researchers at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in China and Peking University, led by Prof. Haizhou Lu and Prof. X. C. Xie, recently demonstrated the electrical switching of a particular form of magnetism known as altermagnetism, which was first discovered in 2022.

Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, could have important implications for the development of new technologies based on altermagnetic materials that can be controlled with electrical currents, without the need for external magnetic fields.

New AI tool deciphers mysteries of nanoparticle motion in liquid environments

Nanoparticles—the tiniest building blocks of our world—are constantly in motion, bouncing, shifting, and drifting in unpredictable paths shaped by invisible forces and random environmental fluctuations.

Better understanding their movements is key to developing better medicines, materials, and sensors. But observing and interpreting their motion at the atomic scale has presented scientists with major challenges.

Researchers in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) have developed an (AI) model that learns the underlying physics governing those movements.

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the historical Apollo-Sojuz Rendezvous, 17 July 1975

Space Renaissance International (SRI) wants to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the historical Apollo-Sojuz Rendezvous, occurred the 17 July 1975!

During the cold war age, American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts gave a beautiful example of friendship and collaboration. Space culture demonstrated to be very much higher than terrestrial warmongering attitude! And such a distinctive cultural tract was demonstrated even later, with the MIR space station and then the ISS. Up to our present days, when the need of an higher Peace Culture is more urgent than ever.

Bernard Foing (SRI President), Jerry Stone, Werner Grandl, Marie-Luise Heuser, and others, will celebrate and share their thoughts about this historical Anniversary.

SRI invites All to celebrate with us!