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Scientists have developed an all-season smart-roof coating that keeps homes warm during the winter and cool during the summer – without consuming natural gas or electricity.

Scientists have developed an all-season smart-roof coating that keeps homes warm during the winter and cool during the summer – without consuming natural gas or electricity.

New Smart-Roof Coating Enables Year-Round Energy Savings - Breakthrough Regulates Household Temperature Without Consuming Natural Gas or Electricity

Scientists have developed an all-season smart-roof coating that keeps homes warm during the winter and cool during the summer without consuming natural

Samples of the temperature-adaptive radiative coating. The material looks like Scotch tape and can be affixed to a rooftop. (Credit: Thor

When one thinks of a robot, images of R2-D2 or C-3PO might enter one’s mind. But robots can offer more than basic entertainment on the big screen.

More than 90 years ago, physicist Eugene Wigner predicted that at low densities and cold temperatures, electrons that usually zip through materials would

Oct. 13, 2021 -- In 1998, researchers including Mark Kubinec of UC Berkeley performed one of the first simple quantum computations using individual

Artist’s illustration of hydrodynamical behavior from an interacting ensemble of quantum spin defects in diamond. (Credit: Norman Yao/Berkeley Lab) –

Researchers from Berkeley Lab are developing new pathways to create and protect quantum coherence in next-gen information-processing devices.