A 250-Year-Old Heat Mystery Leads to a Surprising Discovery About Human Sweat
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“Researchers have identified that human sweat loses over half of its cooling efficiency in hot, dry, and windless conditions because the air directly above the skin becomes stagnant. This finding resolves a long-standing mystery regarding why sweat sometimes fails to cool the body effectively.”
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