A series of quantum physics experiments and theoretical papers now suggest that heat can flow spontaneously from a cold ...

We are used to heat flowing from hot objects to cool ones, and never the other way round, but now researchers have found it is possible to pull off this trick in the strange realm of quantum mechanics ...

This past freeze we had several vehicles towed in due to frozen engines,” said Rick Ruback, owner of Rick’s Automotive and Wrecker Service. “We want to remind people to please ...

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Mercedes is cool in the garage, hot on track — and a clever compression trick has the rest of the grid sweating before the 2026 season even begins ...

When Mickael Perrin started out on his scientific career 12 years ago, he had no way of knowing he was conducting research in an area that would be attracting wide public interest only a few years ...

Physicists have shown that a cornerstone of thermodynamics, the Carnot efficiency limit, breaks down at the atomic scale when quantum correlations come into play. Their results suggest that ...

Scientists develop a microscopic heat engine that achieves 100% efficiency, accomplishing what seemed impossible. A new theoretical design describes a tiny heat engine that can convert all of the heat ...

The hottest engine ever created is, by some definitions, not an engine and not particularly hot. But it reveals the weird physics of extreme temperatures at the microscale. The engine is made of a ...

A team in Japan has harnessed non-thermal quantum states to break classical thermodynamic limits, converting waste heat into electricity with record efficiency. Credit: Stock Researchers have ...

Ford once sketched a road where an engine's pistons never saw oil and engines ran hotter on purpose. In a late‑1980s patent application filed and granted in Europe, the company described an "uncooled ...

Thermo Forge is an Unreal Engine plugin for simulating and querying heat, climate, and thermal conditions in your levels. It processes baked geometry fields such as sky openness, wall permeability, ...