Sounds like a bunch of very cool gobbledy-gook to me. My (extremely) layman's understanding is that this this is effectively better thermometers that could be u

Sounds like a bunch of very cool gobbledy-gook to me. My (extremely) layman's understanding is that this this is effectively better thermometers that could be useful for (among other things) bio-calorimetry. My previous understanding of the word calorimetry was "indirect vs. direct calorimetry" - which (I think) are two techniques for measuring the energy used by some person either at rest or during. It's useful to understand how much energy someone is burning for obvious reasons related to health, nutrition, energy balance, etc. It seems like calorimetry has a much more general usage though, and it's pretty much the science of measuring heat transfers. Cool :} There is so-much extremely-high-context science out there, and it would would be so fun and thought-provoking to keep up with some it it. It feels like my only options are a) spending a ton of time trying to parse extremely high-context articles (and probably misinterpreting them, like I do above), or relying on pop-science communication. The latter, to me, seems to miss most of the time - it usually simplifies things to just conclusions like "new X does Y," which feels like it misses most of the scientific processes while also misunderstanding the scientific spirit of this sort of knowledge...