Heat has always been something we thought we understood. From baking bread to running engines, the idea seemed simple: heat ...

Harnessing quantum states that avoid thermalization enables energy harvesters to surpass traditional thermodynamic limits ...

THIS is a new and considerably enlarged edition of a book which we have previously noticed (December 21, 1893). We then declared our belief in the writer as one capable of stating with all clearness ...

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Kevin Fong explains that a space capsule like the Soyuz heats up on re-entry not from friction with air molecules, but because it compresses the air in front of it. He demonstrates this by compressing ...

To live on the moon or Mars, humans will need heat and air conditioning that can operate long term in reduced gravity and temperatures hundreds of degrees above or below what we experience on Earth.

WE’RE used to the waste heat produced by electrical wires and car brakes. Not so familiar is the heat created by erasing a digital memory. Now an experiment inspired by a metaphorical demon has ...