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⁣ World’s First Heat-Powered Cooling System Turns Waste Heat Into Cold A cooling system powered directly by heat rather than an electric motor has worked in laboratory tests, offering a possible way to turn waste heat or solar energy into cooling. The prototype, developed by researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Techno…

Firelight may have sparked human storytelling by extending social hours New research from the University of St Andrews has developed a novel hypothesis of how firelight was critical to the evolution of sophisticated storytelling. In a paper published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society , researchers from St Andre…

Scientists Intrigued by a Surprising Result in the Search for Dark Matter Dark matter is the invisible stuff that accounts for roughly 85% of the mass in the universe, and for decades, physicists have been trying to figure out what it's made of. Now an experimental facility located nearly a mile below ground in South D…

Tiny mirror that controls light in 3D could make microscopes smaller and faster Researchers use tightly focused laser beams to image biological samples, shape materials with microscopic precision and generate displays. But using those beams in three dimensions requires more than sweeping light from side to side, as the…

Physicists take Hall effect in a new direction Carnegie Mellon University scientists have uncovered a new phenomenon that challenges a longstanding assumption about how electronic materials respond to magnetic fields. The discovery broadens the fundamental understanding of the Hall effect, a principle widely used to me…