Goodbye to air conditioners: 3D bricks that cool the air are arriving

Modern science is increasingly concerned with finding solutions for domestic well-being. During the summer seasons the heat can be unbearable, especially in the hottest locations and in the central hours of the day. Many people are therefore led to purchase an air conditioner, i.e. a device that conveys hot air and cools it by reintroducing it into the cold environment and therefore lowering the overall temperature of the environment. From today these systems could be replaced by a very special invention, namely climate bricks made of ... Read more

Thermal MagIC, the future is in NIST nano thermometers

Cheaper refrigerators? Stronger dentures? A better understanding of human diseases? This and more could be possible one day, thanks to an ambitious new project from NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA. NIST researchers are in the early stages of a huge undertaking. That of designing and building a fleet of tiny ultrasensitive nano thermometers. If they are successful, their system will be the first to make real-time temperature measurements on a microscopic scale. … Read more