The use of environmentally damaging gases in air conditioners and refrigerators could become redundant if a new kind of heat pump lives up to its promise. A prototype, described in a study published ...

The image of the electrical engineer or hacker bent over and using a soldering iron on a circuit board is a classic visual cliché on TV and movies (Figure 1). Figure 1 The electrical engineer working ...

A battery-powered garment embedded with squishy, water-laden gel could help people to work in extreme heat and humidity 1. Yu Pei at the University of California, San Diego, and her colleagues created ...