A startup founded by a material physicist has been working for the past seven years to change the way we cool our food and ...

Solid-state cooling has long promised quieter, more compact refrigeration without the climate burden of traditional gases, but the materials have struggled to deliver enough punch in a small footprint ...

Most laptops with enough power to be worth your time have spinning fans to keep them cool. The days of laptop fans may be coming to an end, though. Ventiva has launched its ICE9 thermal management ...

A collaborative research team from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has discovered a high-energy-density barocaloric ...

The processor, battery, SSD, and other components inside your laptop generate heat, which is why most notebook computers have fans to help keep your computer from overheating. While fanless models do ...

I talk about heat pumps a lot. They really are the most energy efficient way to heat and cool things, but they’re not the only way. There’s another form of cooling that’s been getting a lot of ...