A joint research team from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has achieved precise control and real-time observation of ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

Controlling light at dimensions thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a human hair is one of the pillars of modern ...

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

The US DOE has signed an Other Transaction Agreement with Oklo to support the design, construction, and operation of a ...

Physicists are learning to treat light not as an untouchable beam that simply passes through matter, but as something that ...

Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe explains how to measure the future using nanoscale metrology and discusses the global competition ...

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Aleksei Uvarov scaled Gem Space to 49 million users and built a global career in technology leadership, from engineering and ...

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

Indian scientists have developed a non-invasive technique that allows real-time measurement of the local density of ...