Inside a Last-Ditch Battle to Save (or Kill) Clean-Energy Tax Credits Supporters of tax breaks for wind and solar are fighting to retain them in the G.O.P. tax bill.

The energy transition requires innovation, resilience, and inclusion. The report is both a warning and a roadmap. The path to gender balance is possible—but not guaranteed.

For reasons still unknown, Earth's energy imbalance is rising much faster than models can account for. Now, scientists are calling for long-term investment in monitoring capability, so that they ...

A 90-minute session of cold exposure increases energy expenditure in people with obesity but also leads to greater food intake and high discomfort, limiting its promise for weight control.

The extraction of work (i.e., usable energy) from quantum processes is a key focus of quantum thermodynamics research, which explores the application of thermodynamics laws to quantum systems ...

By finely tuning the ways these materials react to heat and other forms of energy, researchers could create materials with zero thermal expansion. This could revolutionize areas such as construction.

Dynamic models for process design, optimization, and control usually solve a set of heat and/or mass balances as a function of time and/or position in the process. To obtain more robust dynamic models ...

More information: David H. Wolpert et al, Is stochastic thermodynamics the key to understanding the energy costs of computation? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024).

In a new PNAS Perspective, a team of authors argues that stochastic thermodynamics provides the mathematical tools needed to investigate the energy usage of all computational systems.

It became known as the Second Law because during this time, other work had established the law of conservation of energy, designated the first law of thermodynamics.