Winter jackets may seem simple, but sophisticated engineering allows them to keep body heat locked in, while staying breathable enough to let out sweat.
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For those drawn both to engineering and a seafaring life, marine engineering and nautical science are ideal careers.
2024 marks the bicentenary of William Thomson, aka Lord Kelvin, arguably the most influential scientist of the 19th century and perhaps beyond.
When you’re running late in the winter, you don’t want to have to spend time scraping frost off your windshield. Try some expert-recommended techniques instead.
Scientists are trying to figure out if time travel is even theoretically possible. If it is, it looks like it would take a whole lot more knowledge and resources than humans have now to do it.
A wireless transmitter uses almost no power and at first glance appears to violate the laws of physics. It’s actually a clever use of physics that could one day transmit data from tiny remote sensors.
Theories exploring the possibility of time travel rely on the existence of types of matter and energy that we do not understand yet.
Like a coffee you can’t finish stirring, a ‘time crystal’ is a strange quantum state of matter than never settles down to equilibrium.
Probabilistic processes are never time-reversible.
In Beijing’s climate, you could coat a Sydney apartment in a few inches of snow with the same energy the air conditioning would use in an hour.
This is a really important question, and one which climatologists work on in many aspects of their jobs.
Freezers use a evaporation and condensation to pump heat out of the fridge and into the kitchen.
Emptying and refilling a battery is a lot like pouring water from one glass to another, over and over again.
Major airports around the world will see more frequent flight restrictions in the coming decades because of increasingly common hot temperatures.
Getting tellurium and phosphorus to form a molecule is stupidly hard and not very glamorous. Here’s why it’s worth the effort.
The magnitude of the Mount Gambier volcano eruption, 5000 years ago, has been calculated for the first time. Monash University…
How can you turn lukewarm lager to ice-cold beer in under a minute? A startup has developed a nifty gizmo which does just that, saving both energy and embarrassment at parties. Manufacturer Enviro-Cool…
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