Researchers have made a breakthrough in applying the first law of thermodynamics to complex systems, rewriting the way we ...

Thanks to the power of fluctuation relations, physicists are taking the second law of thermodynamics to settings once thought impossible. Since the steam engine began modernizing the world, the second ...

When I began my power industry career years ago (initially in the chemistry lab of a coal-fired power plant), the criticality of proper chemistry control of steam boilers, cooling water systems, and ...

A research team from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a groundbreaking carbon dioxide energy storage (CES) system featuring an innovative ...