New tools include apps that detect heat stress and clothing made with cooling fabrics.

These innovators are creating new materials for these and other technologies. She manufactured a metal foam that reduces ...

A more ergonomic and biometric cooling accessory tailored to safety helmet 60% of Hong Kong's 600,000 construction workers have suffered symptoms of heat stroke.[1] ...

Well, you could get something like the Noctua NV-FS1 for your personal cooling needs, or any other decent desk fan—but what ...

Julia Carpenter, 33, invented a simple, cost-effective way to make a foam-like material out of metal that has a thousand times more surface area than any of its predecessors. The new material could ...

Purdue engineers are researching new materials to lessen the heat buildup in today’s electronics, from smartphones to electric vehicles ...

Researchers at Caltech have developed a "smart mask" to screen for conditions like respiratory infections, COPD, asthma and ...

But you do walk around and you see people wearing neck fans. So I think these cooling gadgets are sort of the near future of wearable technology. So many people already have AirPods and Apple Watches, ...

Here, Wenzheng Heng and colleagues introduce a wearable, mechanically soft ... EBCare uses tandem passive cooling technologies that integrate hydrogel evaporative cooling, metamaterial radiative ...

Researchers at the University of Washington have unveiled a groundbreaking wearable device capable of converting body heat into electricity. This innovative prototype not only addresses the common ...

Keeping today's electronics cool isn't as easy as running a fan installed at the rear of a desktop computer. Using anything from a smartphone to an electric vehicle results in some manner of heat ...