Researchers at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a novel ...

When stretched or compressed, it exhibits a reversible temperature change (ΔT) that’s 20 times greater than that of ...

The Carnot compressor uses a strange centrifugal process to vastly cut down the number of moving parts in the device. It's inspired, the team tells me, by a sixteenth-century device called a ...

Its highest possible value was discovered by Carnot in 1824 and is a cornerstone concept in thermodynamics. It led to the discovery of the second law and to the definition of the Kelvin ...

The incubator, called Carnot, will serve as a place where the firm’s partners can stress-test and develop ideas that could someday become independent companies. Carnot’s existence underscores ...