Nanotechnology heater and cooling body wear

How Winter Woes Inspired A Nanotech Fix For Everything From Cold Necks To Knee Pain
By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com

Kranthi Kiran Vistakula developed technology that can keep your body comfortable in outside temperatures that range from -50 to 50 degrees Celsius.

With the excep­tion of Russ­ian nov­el­ists, not many peo­ple can say their big break was inspire…

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Russia had a three-day traffic jam

Russia had a three-day traffic jam
By Sarah Miller, grist.org

There was a three-day-long traf­fic jam in Rus­sia over the week­end. That’s not three hours. That is three days. There was a snow­storm on the M-10, a well-traveled road between St. Peters­burg and Moscow. Now, one might think a coun­try…

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