Passive Cooling Evidence Is Missing for Stacked Tropical Housing
A review of 60 studies finds passive cooling can reduce demand in warm-humid buildings, yet no study has tested its ...
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Night Flushing and Heavy Walls Could Cut Cooling Loads in Tropical Campus Buildings, Review Finds
A systematic review of 37 studies finds that pairing heavyweight thermal mass with night-time natural ventilation can reduce cooling loads ...
AI Reads 11,000 Park Reviews to Reveal How City Wetlands Really Feel Cool
A Shenzhen study combining Landsat data with AI analysis of 11,109 online reviews reveals non-linear links between wetland park cooling ...
Neural Network Predictive Control Cuts Building Energy Use While Boosting Comfort
A neural network predictive control framework that jointly optimizes thermal comfort, daylighting, energy use, and life-cycle cost cut a school ...
The Best Courtyard Tree Depends on More Than Cooling Power, Study Finds
A multi-criteria framework combining ENVI-met simulations with thermal comfort indices reveals that the top-performing courtyard tree in hot-arid schoolyards depends ...
The Digital Twin That Learned to Care About Heritage
A new framework from Qatar University researchers proposes urban digital twins that carry cultural significance as computable, contestable data, coupling ...
Wearable Fabrics and Solid-State Chillers Challenge the Air Conditioner
A new review maps emerging alternatives to air conditioning, from radiative cooling metafabrics and thermoelectric vests to membrane heat pumps ...
No Perfect Heater: New Framework Puts Health at the Center of Home Heating Choices
A new multicriteria framework from the University of Oviedo shows that no home heating technology is universally best, because health, ...
AI maps the exact temperatures that switch the world’s heaters and air conditioners on
Researchers have used machine learning and global energy records to create the first worldwide dataset of the outdoor temperature thresholds ...
Mapping Two Decades of Research on How City Shape Drives Urban Heat
A new bibliometric review of 1,000 papers published between 2005 and 2024 maps how research on urban morphology and the ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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