Recent research reveals that quantum mechanics can supersede the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale, ...
Time crystals exhibit perpetual motion-like behavior when separated from external energy input, but scientists found a way to ...
Image of argon plasma glowing a bluish color in an experiment at the WVU Center for KINETIC Plasma Physics. (Credit: WVU Photo/Brian Persinger) The four laws of thermodynamics are an established ...
Scientists have built the world’s smallest engine. It consists of a single microscopic particle, smaller than a human cell, ...
Thermodynamics and statistical physics provide a unified framework linking the macroscopic laws of energy, work, and entropy to the microscopic motions of particles. Thermodynamics, rooted in the laws ...
At an effective temperature of 13 million kelvins, the jiggling glass sphere could help scientists understand physics at the microscale.
Impressively, the world's hottest engine could alter our understanding of thermodynamics as well as human diseases.
Penn Engineers have developed a mathematical "Rosetta Stone" that translates atomic and molecular movements into predictions ...
Technically speaking, an engine is a device that converts some form of energy into mechanical energy. Taking that definition ...