Recent improvements in our understanding of how the principles of thermodynamics apply in the quantum realm could give a ...

Scientists at Aalto University in Finland have built the world’s first cyclic heat engine, ...

Heat engines convert heat into work—for example, moving a piston in a certain direction. For an engine to be 100% efficient, when the process is reversed—the piston returns to its original state—there ...

As the world battles rising inflation, a cost-of-living crisis, climate change and more, it’s clear that the fossil-fueled status quo is not working. Fossil fuels may have seemed like the crutch we ...