Heat batteries quietly solve a major transition gap, storing surplus renewable electricity as heat.

This infographic depicts a simplified diagram of the novel energy-harvesting technique using the TL liquid. Implementation of this strategy in practice could help in the conversion of waste heat ...

The movement of waves, patterns that carry sound, light or heat, through materials has been widely studied by physicists, as ...

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

A team of engineers and material scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder seems to have defied the basic law of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If there’s one law of physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat flows spontaneously from hotter ...

A research team led by Professor Toshimasa Fujisawa of the Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) has now created a small energy-harvesting device that uses a naturally occurring non-thermal state ...

Earth’s oceans reached their highest heat levels on record in 2025, absorbing vast amounts of excess energy from the ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...