For many Thanksgiving fans, there's nothing quite like the taste of a perfectly-roasted turkey. Unfortunately, while the ...

Time crystals exhibit perpetual motion-like behavior when separated from external energy input, but scientists found a way to ...

Recent research reveals that quantum mechanics can supersede the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale, ...

† Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 3, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany ...

Scientists have built the world’s smallest engine. It consists of a single microscopic particle, smaller than a human cell, ...

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.

Instead of relying on switches or digital control, the light finds its own path through the system. This approach could transform data transmission, computing, and communications by making optical ...

Technically speaking, an engine is a device that converts some form of energy into mechanical energy. Taking that definition ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...