It’s a rare case of all light and no heat: A new study reports that a laser can be used to switch a film of vanadium dioxide back and forth between reflective and transparent states without heating or cooling it.
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Four climate control products developed by Emerson Climate Technologies, a business of Emerson, recently received 2007 Dealer Design Awards from an independent panel of heating, air conditioning and refrigeration contractors convened by the industry’s leading news publication, the Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News.
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A year after launch, scientists working with Hinode, a Japanese mission with ESA participation, are meeting at Trinity College, Dublin, to discuss latest findings on solar mysteries - including new insights on solar flares and coronal heating.
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In the family of Prussian blue, there is a compound that can act as a switch: it is not magnetic at the outset, but it can become magnetized by the effect of light and return to its initial state by heating.
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