Touch the back of a laptop and it often feels warm. This is because part of the energy used for computation and communication ...

A research team led by Professor Toshimasa Fujisawa of the Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) has now created a small ...

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one ...

If you’ve ever seen yourself through a thermal imaging camera, you’ll know that your body produces lots of heat. This is in fact a waste product of our metabolism. Every square foot of the human body ...

The systems, which can store clean energy as heat, were chosen by readers as the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2024. We need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a ...

Of course, bitcoin critics would argue there is nothing truly gained here in terms of energy efficiency. One of the side ...

Dozens of retired coal-fired power plants could find new life providing backup or emergency power for the electricity grid – except this time without the need for fossil fuels. They could instead rely ...

Engineers create a sand battery that they say will slash the carbon emissions in Pornainen, Finland, by 70% — it uses renewables to heat the sand to almost 850 degrees Fahrenheit. When you purchase ...

Heat pumps date back to the 1850s and are more energy efficient than furnaces or boilers. Image: Schon via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...