In a new study published recently in Advanced Functional Materials, UW researchers developed a new “inverse design framework” that reverses the standard design process to speed up the discovery of multifunctional materials. Climate models get a vote of confidence in a new UW study mapping tropical ocean temperature over timeClimate models help researchers understand how conditions are changing over time to forecast what is likely to happen in the future. Although modern climate models get a lot of things right, they often fail to replicate recent temperature change in the tropical Pacific Ocean, a key region for global weather. This has concerned scientists, but a UW study published July 4 in JGR: Oceans offers a glimmer of hope. The researchers found that climate models could successfully replicate temperature trends in the equatorial Pacific when they expanded the window of observation by 20 years.