Down on the south end of California’s San Joaquin Valley, oil rigs have plumbed the earth like flocks of blackened drinking birds for more than a century.

Researchers at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a sustainable and controllable strategy to manipulate interfacial heat transfer, paving the way for improving the performance of eco-friendly cooling in various applications such as electronics, buildings and solar panels.

Researchers from Lancaster University and Radboud University Nijmegen have managed to generate propagating spin waves at the nanoscale and discovered a novel pathway to modulate and amplify them.

Imagine if your dead laptop or phone could charge in a minute or if an electric car could be fully powered in 10 minutes.

About a third of the food produced globally each year goes to waste, while approximately 800 million people suffer from hunger, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization.

Researchers at KIT develop a transparent metamaterial for energy-efficient light and temperature regulation in buildings.

Thermophotovoltaics developed at U-M can recover significantly more energy stored in heat batteries.

Boilers are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

More boiling means faster cooling, and when it comes to cooling equipment like nuclear reactors, every degree counts.

A low-cost, tin-based catalyst can selectively convert carbon dioxide to three widely produced chemicals — ethanol, acetic acid and formic acid.