Roofs spend the day soaking up sunshine, and air conditioners spend the afternoon fighting the result. A white paint from the University of South Florida (USF) takes a different approach: instead of merely absorbing less heat, it sends heat away, and it has now been shown to cool a surface below the air around it in a month of real outdoor testing in Tampa.
According to USF's announcement on November 5, 2026, the self-cooling coating was created in the lab of Distinguished University Professor ...
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Contact Lenses Deliver Medicine to Treat Eyes
Scientists at Harvard Medical School have developed soft contact lenses which can ‘dispense' prescription drugs over a period of weeks to the exact spot they are needed.
Eye drops are used to dispense most eye medications but they are inefficient in several ways. Only about 1 to 7 percent of eye drop medications are absorbed into the eye because most of it drips out; drugs applied to the eyes in this manner may be washed out after only thirty minutes or so. To add, patients find eye drops cum...
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