Thermal engineering research has increasingly focused on innovative system design and optimization to address global challenges in energy efficiency, ...

Heat distribution across solid surfaces, mouth bacteria and better diagnostics for brain cancer will be among the topics tackled during the 2026 Riverside County Science & Engineering Fair, which ...

Rising day and night temperatures are threatening rice, wheat, and maize production by disrupting plant growth, grain filling, and grain quality, putting global food security at risk. Precision ...

Current capacitors often require dedicated cooling loops to keep them operating within a safe temperature range. If the capacitor itself can withstand the heat of an engine block or a high-voltage ...

A team of researchers has unveiled a first-of-its-kind stable and fully solid-state thermal transistor that uses an electric field to control a semiconductor device's heat movement. The group's study ...

For 200 years, Fourier’s law has been the go-to explanation for how heat diffuses through solid materials (at least on macro scales). However, a new study by scientists at the University of ...

Ben Kravitz receives funding relevant to this work from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Science Foundation. Tyler Felgenhauer receives funding relevant to ...

How does a cloud stay cool under direct sunlight—or seem to vanish in infrared? In nature, phenomena like white cumulus clouds, gray storm systems, and even the hollow hairs of polar bears offer ...