17+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1543+ words) How civilization survives by borrowing order, exploiting gradients, and deferring decay. The universe doesn’t want you to survive. It wants entropy: heat spreading until it is evenly, almost monotonously, distributed; matter dispersing; and every useful gradient gradually collapsing toward equilibrium....

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (13+ words) (A Speculative Concept). “Gravity and Phase (Hypothesis)” is published by Prasanth Retnakaran Saraswathy....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (649+ words) KIT researchers have built a solid-state cooling unit that uses waste heat instead of electricity, using two thin shape-memory alloy films. Shape Memory Films Turn Waste Heat Into Cooling KIT researchers have built a solid-state cooling unit that uses waste…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (232+ words) Why Does Humidity Make It Feel Hotter?On a hot and humid day, you may feel much more uncomfortable than the temperature suggests. When you sweat, the sweat normally evaporates and helps cool your body. But when there is a…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (26+ words) New thermoelectric generator modules deliver higher power from temperature differences, offering compact energy recovery for industrial processes and other applications where otherwise wasted heat is available....

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (485+ words) Jeanie Buss contests Josh Kushner and Bob Iger’s $12.5B purchase of Lakers Crocodile that ate Dinosaurs reappears Harvard discloses $2.2B investment in SpaceX Ariana Grande announces step away from the public eye post-tour Gravity has survived its largest-scale test yet, holding up…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (105+ words) As with many insightful theoretical breakthroughs, it comes at a time of contradictory observational evidence. Thomas Kuhn would be proud. Over the past few years, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and other new observatories have been looking back to…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (245+ words) Manufacturing Chemist In a recent case study, Huber tested the capabilities of their Unistat® 910w unit by heating a 100-litre Diehm un-insulated jacketed glass reactor. The process temperature set-point was changed from -60 °C to 20 °C, requiring the system to ramp through…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (209+ words) MUNCIE, Ind. (WRTV) — Ball State University moved all classes online Friday because a series of geothermal pipe leaks knocked out air conditioning across campus during a heat wave. The university announced Thursday that the system suffered three ruptures within 24 hours....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (30+ words) Optical structures based on the Smith hat produced unusual light patterns that reflected their lack of mirror symmetry and changed with light direction and polarization....