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PNW scientists have made a flexible “fabric” that converts body heat into electricity. Heat is energy, and most of the heat we produce — from our bodies, kitchens and cars — just dissipates into the ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...