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

NIMS, in joint research with the University of Tokyo, AIST, the University of Osaka, and Tohoku University, have proposed a ...

Zero-thermal-expansion (ZTE) materials are widely used in precision optics, cryogenic equipment and sensors, where even small ...

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People not in the refrigeration business often think that refrigeration equipment produces cold air; in fact, the equipment is actually removing heat from air and leaving what’s left — the cold. When ...

Mountain permafrost is warming and thawing worldwide due to climate change, with ground temperature being a key control of ...

In some cases, heat conduction can even be dramatically limited by the fact that different isotopes of an element are built into the material -- i.e. similar atoms with different numbers of neutrons.

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Inspired by hierarchical structures found in nature, a research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the ...