Physicists in the Netherlands have built a heat engine that might be the tiniest ever created. Based on “piezoresistive” silicon, and smaller than a typical biological cell, the engine could find ...

The smaller the better, and in a world of fast-developing technology, that’s called innovation. Just this month, a desk-sized turbine capable of powering a small town was announced to be under ...

The heat engine works as its intrinsic spin converts heat absorbed from laser beams into oscillations of a trapped ion. Credit: John Goold, Trinity College Dublin A new heat engine made from a ...

Physicists led by Johannes Roßnagel at the University of Mainz in Germany, the single atom engine is about as efficient as your car at transforming the changing temperature into mechanical energy.

Piston rings are the seals in your cylinders, giving you better compression and power, but what happens if they wear or break ...

image: Engineers at MIT and NREL have developed a heat engine with no moving parts that is as efficient as a steam turbine. view more CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable ...

Heat is also a byproduct of friction. Think about rubbing your hands together to warm them up. The faster you rub your hands together, the hotter they get. Now think about the pistons in your ...

A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology The new thermal engine developed by MIT and NREL is a solar cell-like ...