Warming

It’s a basic fact that temperatures drop at night, damaging crops, equipment and infrastructure. Scientists have created a new film that selectively absorbs and reflects different wavelengths of infrared light to efficiently keep objects warm.

It’s not just you – it has been hot lately. According to preliminary reports of global average temperatures, last week was the hottest week on record, with the record for hottest day broken several times in a row.

To develop a heat-trapping fabric, researchers looked to polar bears, who thrive in incredibly low temperatures. The secret, they found, has to do with a relationship between the bears' hollow translucent hair and the black skin that lies beneath.

​An international team of scientists may have discovered the key to a phenomena known as "galactic warming," which is thought to be responsible for a dramatic drop-off in star production on galactic scales.

With a raft of new wearables flooding onto the market, it was only a matter of time before someone made the humble innersole smarter. Digitsole is an innersole which warms your feet, counts your steps, and tracks the calories you have burned while walking – all via a simple smartphone app.

Keep your mouse hand warm all winter with this warming mouse pad.

The Infant Warmer is a sleeping bag-like device that uses a phase-change material to keep premature infants at a proper body temperature for up to four hours, without electricity.

Sanyo has launched the egg-shaped eneloop kairo hand-warmers in time for winter. The single-sided and double-sided models fit easily into a handbag or pocket and have rechargeable batteries and make gloves almost obsolete.

Arctic temperatures in the 1990s reached their warmest level in 2,000 years, new research indicates. The study provides new evidence that the Arctic would be cooling if not for greenhouse gas emissions that are overpowering natural climate patterns.