If you’re sweating over the rising temperature, there’s good news on the horizon. A group of NTU students has proposed a novel way to bring the mercury down a few notches. Their solution is a paint that cools the surface of buildings by up to 6°C, three times more than for existing paints. It does so by facilitating evaporative cooling instead of just reflective and radiative cooling that traditional paints rely on. This idea took first place at the second Kumar Sustainability & Innovation Prize, snagging them a cool $50,000.

This story was published in the Mar-Apr 2024 issue of HEY!. To read it and other stories from this issue in print, click here.