Thermal

Energy prices around the world have been rising alarmingly since 2021. While some have shared advice on how to heat the person rather than the home, researchers at KTH are working on a building material that could help regulate indoor temperatures.

The extremely hot interior of Earth is slowly cooling down, but exactly how fast is unknown. By studying how well a common deep-Earth mineral conducts heat, researchers have now found that the planet’s interior may be cooling faster than expected.

Scientists at the University of Manchester have developed a new type of smart textile that could enable thermally adaptive clothing, using graphene to alter its thermal radiation properties via electrical tuning.

​Levitation may look like magic, but there are a few scientific tricks behind it. Magnetic systems, optical levitation and acoustics only work with certain objects, but researchers at the University of Chicago have developed a method to levitate basically anything, using differences in temperature.

Working at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, scientists claim to have created a sponge-like graphite-carbon material that helps convert water to steam using sunlight only one-hundredth as bright as that required by conventional steam-producing solar generators.

According to a new study, a large network of concentrated solar power plants in two of the world's deserts would be able to consistently run at 80 percent or more of maximum capacity throughout the year regardless of time of day, season, or weather conditions.

NASA scientists have installed the largest heat shield ever created onto the crew module of the Orion spacecraft. The shield, made of the same material that protected the crew on re-entry during the Apollo missions, will be tested to the extreme later this year as Orion's maiden flight blasts off.

The full moon has long been associated with lunacy, violence, fertility, disasters, and the performance of the stock market. While these have been thoroughly debunked, a lunar ranging study has long contended with a "Full-Moon Curse." This Curse is real, and has now been explained.

In what could lead to new ultrathin insulation, researchers at the University of Namur in Belgium and the University of Hassan I in Morocco found that radiation plays a larger role than conduction in the insulation of polar animals such as penguins and polar bears than previously believed.

Researchers at the University of Toronto say they can improve the energy of efficiency buildings by fitting window panes with tiny channels of water. The scientists says that these channels can provide 7º to 9º C of cooling in the summer and reduce heat loss during winter.

Cogenra has installed a cogeneration solar system at SoCalGas' Energy Resource Center, to show it can work for cooling purposes as well.

The novel Monarch Lotus solar collector is designed to simultaneously generate solar electric and solar thermal power as well as purify water.