{"id":217926,"date":"2025-07-15T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/beyond-shade-researchers-improve-radiant-cooling-to-make-outdoor-temperatures-feel-cooler"},"modified":"2025-07-15T09:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:07:24","slug":"beyond-shade-researchers-improve-radiant-cooling-to-make-outdoor-temperatures-feel-cooler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/beyond-shade-researchers-improve-radiant-cooling-to-make-outdoor-temperatures-feel-cooler","title":{"rendered":"Beyond shade: Researchers improve radiant cooling to make outdoor temperatures feel cooler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beyond-shade-researchers-improve-radiant-cooling-to-make-outdoor-temperatures-feel-cooler.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41893-025-01558-0\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Sustainability<\/i><\/a>, 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\u2014a top priority, especially for residents in urban communities.<\/p>\n<p>As climate change accelerates, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/extreme+heat+events\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">extreme heat events<\/a> are occurring with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-07-duration-faster-global.html\" target=\"_blank\">greater intensity and frequency,<\/a> threatening the safety of people who spend significant time outdoors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}