In order to remove heat, for example from computer chips, materials are needed which are extremely good at conducting heat. Scientists in Vienna have analyzed materials on an atomic level and found an ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.--Plastics are excellent insulators, meaning they can efficiently trap heat - a quality that can be an advantage in something like a coffee cup sleeve. But this insulating property is ...

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters The thermal conductivity of ...

Sometimes we want to heat things up - like these beans. Oh, wait. Hang on. You need to put the beans in something first. But what should it be made of? Wood? Plastic? Or metal? The metal saucepan is ...

A METALLIC compound that does not expand when heated could pave the way to a range of exotic new alloys. These materials would be invaluable to engineers building devices such as space probes that ...