Refrigeration today is something we can easily take for granted. But in the early 1800s, there was one entirely different ...

Physicists successfully created a working heat engine that consists of only one atom. When built on a larger scale, the output of this single-atom engine could replicate the one from a car engine.

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 ...

Nelson Ireson June 6, 2008 Comment Now! Novel technologies to improve the efficiency of existing vehicles and combustion processes are the quickest route to improved fuel mileage. Hybrid cars are ...