X-ray laser experiment unlocks water’s hidden critical state at -81°F
Scientists may have solved the long-standing mystery of why ice floats and why liquid water expands as it…
Death is not the end: What physics says about dying
A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but…
Universal work extraction in quantum thermodynamics
Preliminaries We consider a quantum system in contact with a thermal bath of inverse temperature β associated with…
A thermal-noise-resilient microwave quantum network up to 4 K
Krantz, P. et al. A quantum engineer’s guide to superconducting qubits. Appl. Phys. Rev. 6, 021318 (2019). Article …
Fueling research in nuclear thermal propulsion | MIT News
Going to the moon was one thing; going to Mars will be quite another. The distance alone is…
Thermal camouflage breakthrough achieved with 9x heat scattering tech
Heat is stubborn. Unlike light or sound, it does not travel in clear beams or waves that engineers…
Chennai fitness coach simplifies weight loss in 3 easy steps, and calorie deficit is the name of the game
With winter festivities starting in full swing, it has become a challenge to stick to our weight loss…
Experimentally achieving minimal dissipation via thermodynamically optimal transport
We begin by implementing a translation and compression protocol—a simple yet highly controllable process — to experimentally characterize…
The World’s Hottest Engine Is Smaller Than a Cell and Hotter Than the Sun’s Corona
Technically speaking, an engine is a device that converts some form of energy into mechanical energy. Taking that…
Efficient quantum thermal simulation | Nature
We provide the explicit form of our construction and explain how exact detailed balance can be achieved through…
Thermodynamic limits surpassed with quantum energy-harvesting method
Japanese researchers have unveiled a breakthrough in energy harvesting that could redefine efficiency limits. By exploiting quantum states…
Stabilizing effect of amino acids on protein and colloidal dispersions
Second osmotic virial coefficient A common way to evaluate the stability of a compound in a dispersion is…