Scientists have found the secret behind a property of solid materials known as ferroelectrics, showing that quasiparticles moving in wave-like patterns among vibrating atoms carry enough heat to turn ...

New research from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with The Ohio State University and Amphenol Corporation, challenges conventional understanding about ...

Controlling heat flow is a major challenge for many technologies. In electronic and photonic devices, for example, heat dissipation can limit the performance and efficiency, as well as their potential ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1986, American physicist Arthur Ashkin developed a fascinating tool that could gently pick and move microscopic objects like ...

Every time you tweet about your meal or check out a new LOLcat, your mobile device churns away to crunching bits and flinging data through the air to make it all happen seamlessly. While technology is ...

Imagine shaking a snow globe again and again. You’d expect the flakes to scatter endlessly. However, a team of researchers discovered that when they repeatedly jolted some of the coldest atoms in the ...