Nobody wants to be dealing with an overheating engine, especially if it happens while you’re driving. Overheating can cause ...

But heat engines, which usually rely on the expansion and contraction of liquids or gas, are trickier to downscale. As the devices get smaller, engineers find it harder to design structures that can ...

A recent study led by Chinese scientists has challenged the hundreds-of-year-old myth that a heat engine can achieve both ...

Car experts emphasize quick, safe actions if you experience a breakdown during California’s summer heat: Move your vehicle ...

Engineers have developed a heat engine with no moving parts that is as efficient as a steam turbine. The design could someday enable a fully decarbonized power grid, researchers say.

The heat engine is a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell, similar to a solar panel’s photovoltaic cells, that passively captures high-energy photons from a white-hot heat source and converts them ...

The thermophotovoltaic cell, also called a “heat engine,” is 1 square centimeter, but the research team behind it are looking to scale up. Photo: Felice Frankel Researchers at MIT have built a ...

Quantum heat engines beat classical counterparts. Starting the flywheel from rest (that is, from its ground state), the researchers characterized its states after different operation times by ...

Cyclone Power Technologies, developer of the external combustion Cyclone Engine, announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has allowed the company a patent on its scalable waste energy ...

In most cases heat from the engine is dissipated through the vehicle’s exhaust systems. But when you engage the car heater some of that heat is diverted to the car’s interior.