Magnets tuned with lasers at room temperature could lead to faster hard drives and a new generation of computer chips.

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An interdisciplinary research team including mechanical science and engineering professor Mickey Clemon in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is ...

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The Namib desert’s sand can be burningly hot but its air, blowing in off the Atlantic Ocean, is cool. Running generates a wind over the body. We concluded that the heat from the sun and from the ...

In one of the hottest places on the planet, a modest desert shrub has quietly rewritten what scientists thought plants could ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Imagine living in sauna-like temperatures for days. This situation is the reality for residents in some of world's largest cities ...