Temperature comparison (VIDEO)

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Inspired by the way that the Morpho butterfly creates color, researchers developed colorful cooling films that don’t absorb light and thus don’t heat up. The researchers used an infrared camera (bottom) to compare their cooling films to traditional paint when left in the sun.

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Wanlin Wang, Shenzhen University

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