Physicists Now Understand Why a Weird Quantum Gas Refuses to Heat Up
Typically, adding energy to a system makes it hotter. But last year, scientists demonstrated that quantum systems don’t…
Death is not the end: What physics says about dying
A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but…
X-ray laser experiment unlocks water’s hidden critical state at -81°F
Scientists may have solved the long-standing mystery of why ice floats and why liquid water expands as it…
Universal work extraction in quantum thermodynamics
Preliminaries We consider a quantum system in contact with a thermal bath of inverse temperature β associated with…
A thermal-noise-resilient microwave quantum network up to 4 K
Krantz, P. et al. A quantum engineer’s guide to superconducting qubits. Appl. Phys. Rev. 6, 021318 (2019). Article …
Fueling research in nuclear thermal propulsion | MIT News
Going to the moon was one thing; going to Mars will be quite another. The distance alone is…
Thermal camouflage breakthrough achieved with 9x heat scattering tech
Heat is stubborn. Unlike light or sound, it does not travel in clear beams or waves that engineers…
Chennai fitness coach simplifies weight loss in 3 easy steps, and calorie deficit is the name of the game
With winter festivities starting in full swing, it has become a challenge to stick to our weight loss…
Experimentally achieving minimal dissipation via thermodynamically optimal transport
We begin by implementing a translation and compression protocol—a simple yet highly controllable process — to experimentally characterize…
The World’s Hottest Engine Is Smaller Than a Cell and Hotter Than the Sun’s Corona
Technically speaking, an engine is a device that converts some form of energy into mechanical energy. Taking that…