This month’s Tech Briefs featured a potential alternative to the air conditioner: A painted-on polymer coating that can cool down a building.

Employing a technique called “passive daytime radiative cooling,” the surface spontaneously cools by reflecting sunlight and radiating heat to the colder atmosphere. Read the Tech Brief.

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