Thermal Physiology + The Environment
Qore products like ICEPLATE® and ICEFLASK provide cooling power through the phase change of ice to water. This article explains the basic physics behind this cooling and explores one main benefit of personal cooling devices: the significant reduction in sweat rate.
Cold weather adaptation can make the difference between mission success or failure in extreme environments. This article explores the basics of cold weather operations and techniques used by the U.S. Army to fight and win in Arctic conditions.
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Extreme cold can be dangerous, disfiguring, and deadly, but humans have adaptations to help survive cold weather environments. In this article, we explore the basics of cold weather physiological responses and cold weather injuries.
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High temperatures across the globe smashed records in 2023, and this year was even hotter. This post explores how much warmer than normal temperature rose in Summers 2023 and 2024 and some of the causes of this recent extreme heat.
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The first article in this series explores fundamentals of human heat stress. Here, we expand on these fundamentals, going deeper into the science of thermoregulation to understand the human body’s limits in hot environments.
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