In the run-up to a pivotal announcement on the future of particle physics in Europe, Tessa Charles urges backers of rival colliders to unite around whichever project gets the go-ahead I sincerely hope ...

Researchers have developed a steam engine that's only a few micrometers wide. It works - although it does sputter a bit. (Image Credit: Max Planck Society) Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have ...

An innovative form of heat engine operates using only one single atom. An article in the latest edition of the journal Science describes an innovative form of heat engine that operates using only one ...

A tiny engine comprised of a glass bead zapped with electric fields behaves as if it is operating 2000 times hotter than the ...