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 ...

When we think about heat traveling through a material, we typically picture diffusive transport, a process that transfers heat from high-temperature to low-temperature as particles and molecules bump ...

This work can lead to more efficient heat removal from electronic devices, including such as smartphones, computers, and LEDs. Before the modern understanding of thermodynamics, scientists sometimes ...

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 ...