A breakthrough at Rice University enhances thermophotovoltaic systems with a new thermal emitter design, achieving over 60% ...

Researchers at Rice University have found a new way to improve a key element of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems, which ...

When laser energy is deposited in a target material, numerous complex processes take place at length and time scales that are ...

Scientists develop a revolutionary thermal emitter with 60% efficiency, paving the way for scalable and sustainable energy ...

A current key to stabilizing climates across the Atlantic and beyond could be one-third weaker by 2040, a new study has ...

Since their appearance, lightsabers—elegant energy weapons from a more civilized era—have captured people’s attention. They ...

which convert heat into electricity via light. Using an unconventional approach inspired by quantum physics, Rice engineer Gururaj Naik and his team designed a thermal emitter that can deliver ...

Our dreams can only be as expansive as our circumstances. To have ambitions requires the ability to imagine a way out of your ...

But in those terms, each degree of change represents major repercussions. Since the 19 seventies, water in the Gulf of Mexico ...

South Australia and Victoria buckle up for extremely hot conditions.

A surprising reversal of our usual understanding of the second law of thermodynamics shows that it may be possible for heat to move in the “wrong” direction, flowing from a cold area to a warm one ...