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Nobel in Medicine: Sensing heat, cold, and touch

Enlarge / The protein that allows us to sense touch is big and complicated. (credit: PDB) Today’s Nobel Prize is in Physiology or Medicine, which often means biology these days. And 2021 is not an exception, as two researchers have won for their discoveries regarding how humans detect their immediate environment through the sense of […]

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New fabric passively cools whatever it’s covering—including you

Enlarge / Like this, but even cooler. (credit: Ars Technica) Rising temperatures around the world run the risk of creating a dangerous cycle where more people get air conditioning, which causes energy demand to surge and leads to higher carbon emissions, which makes temperatures rise even more. Renewable power is one option for breaking that […]