Every time you tweet about your meal or check out a new LOLcat, your mobile device churns away to crunching bits and flinging data through the air to make it all happen seamlessly. While technology is ...

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 ...

Evaporation-assisted chip cooling lowers LED temperatures while preserving heat flow for small but useful waste-heat energy ...

CNT yarns can be used in thermoelectric devices to produce electricity from low-grade waste heat. To this end, researchers from Okayama University in Japan developed a doping protocol to produce ...

BASF plans to install what it describes as the world’s largest industrial heat pump at its flagship plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, as a way to cut the carbon dioxide footprint of its products. The ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Who didn’t like Super Soakers as a kid? You pump it a lot, it builds pressure, then it shoots liquid. In many ways, they were very similar to humans, which is why Lonnie Johnson, its inventor, is ...

In neighborhoods around the world, a potent resource slips away unnoticed. This buried treasure is waste heat — a powerhouse for low-carbon energy that often remains untapped. Buildings, factories and ...

As we move toward a cleaner energy future, there is a growing push to electrify everything, from cars to home heating. While that sounds ideal, it is also much more than a matter of simply plugging in ...