A forest with high tree-species diversity is better at buffering heat peaks in summer and cold peaks in winter than a forest ...

When University of Texas at Dallas researchers tested a new surface that they designed to collect and remove condensates ...

Does the proton decay? While this was a famous prediction of Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) developed in the 1970s and 1980s, ...

In an ultra-cold, high-magnetic-field setting, ZrTe5 defies expectations by showing quantum heat oscillations. Researchers ...

Could an illusion help relieve pain? Researchers in Germany tested the "rubber hand illusion," a bizarre trick where people ...

The ability to conduct heat is one of the most fundamental properties of matter, crucial for engineering applications. Scientists know well how conventional materials, such as metals and insulators, ...

Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of ...

This initiative, which began two months ago, is part of a global scientific experiment aimed at understanding the impact of extreme indoor heat on health and economic well-being in developing ...

Scientists know well how conventional materials conduct heat. However, things are not as straightforward under extreme ...

Summary: A new study shows that the rubber hand illusion can reduce the intensity of pain caused by heat. Researchers found ...

If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of their own body under certain conditions. What sounds like a gimmick could one day be used to help ...

Wanted: good eyes and steady hands. When Derek Schmidt applied for a job at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s target fabrication facility more than 20 years ago, it wasn’t his electrical engineering ...