#yoghurt

People across the UK would have had their windows open and fans on to try and keep cool in the midst of the third heatwave of the summer. But there would likely have been few trying out one university lecturer's alternative method to lower the temperature in a building. Dr Ben Roberts, a senior lecturer in healthy buildings at Loughborough University, said applying yoghurt to the outside of windows can lower the temperature by up to 3.5C. He has pointed to the results of a month-long experiment to show the method has brought results.

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I'm only posting this because I want to see pictures of @ayeforscotland's windows covered in yoghurt during the next heatwave.