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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Tires That Cannot Go Flat
Biomimicry, the science that imitates nature to create new products, is the field responsible for new, airless, tubeless, tires that cannot go flat.
Resilient Technologies, a Wisconsin based company, is behind this invention. The inspiration for the design of the tire was found in nature: the honeycomb. Instead of using a pressurized air cavity, the tire design relies on a geometric pattern of six-sided cells that are arranged in a matrix like a honeycomb.
The tire has uniform flexibility ...
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