This engine won't be fueling interstellar missions, but still finds an unexpected way to use deep space energy to generate ...

In the early years of the nineteenth century, steam engines were at work in a variety of practical uses. However, they were still imperfect in many ways. One particular problem were the boilers, that ...

One of the most unusual looking cars at this year’s Shell Eco-marathon Europe was testing out one of the oldest concepts for harnessing energy for motion: the Stirling heat engine. Team Schluckspecht ...

I first heard about Stirling engines at probably about the same time most people in the general public heard of them, i.e. during the frenzy of speculation regarding the exact nature of inventor Dean ...

Just how small can you make an engine? Two researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Valentin Blickle and Clemens Bechinger, successfully ...

HANOVER, N.H. -- To many a scientific purist and environmentalist, the internal combustion engine is a bust. It is noisy, pollutes and inches us irrevocably toward global warming. An interesting, but ...

After spending nearly a decade establishing an innovative industrial freezer company in southeast Ohio, CEO Neill Lane moved Stirling Ultracold’s headquarters to Columbus this spring. Production of ...