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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .Windows can offer beautiful natural light.
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3 .But on bright days, the sunlight can bake a room.
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4 .That trapped heat drives up air conditioning use and energy costs.
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5 .Now, a team of researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has designed cooler windows by mimicking nature.
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6 .When animals get hot, tiny capillaries near the surface of the skin dilate.
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7 .Circulating blood helps transfer the body heat out to the air.
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8 .In that spirit, the researchers created a super-thin silicone-rubber layer with a network of tiny sealed channels.
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9 .When the rubber is stretched over a window, it's completely transparent.
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10 .Water running through the channels absorbs heat and transfers it to the outside air.
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11 .In the researchers' model, a large window at 100 degrees Fahrenheit can be lowered to a much more manageable 86 degrees.
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12 .And the energy needed to pump the water is far less than what would be needed to cool the room equivalently with air conditioning.
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13 .The research is in the journal Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells.
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14 .The team is working with architects to model energy savings if the microfluidic channels were included in an entire building's windows.
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15 .Which could warm consumers' hearts.
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16 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.
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