Researchers led by Cornell have discovered an unusual phenomenon in a metal-insulating material, providing valuable insights for the design of materials with new properties by way of faster switching ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have designed a new material for insulating windows that could improve the energy efficiency of buildings worldwide—and it works a bit like a high-tech ...

Left: quantum mechanical simulation of the energies allowed for the electrons before laser irradiation. The blue region means absence of electronic state, the white and red ones symbolize electronic ...

Conduction is the direct flow of heat from your warm body into your colder surroundings. In winter, all that heat escaping ...