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EMCI Wireless reports nearly half of Americans feel unsafe at work, citing violence, burnout, and health concerns as top ...

LEGO is launching a new interactive platform called LEGO SMART Play. This innovation uses Lego smart bricks that allow ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

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More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly through motion. That insight laid the foundation for thermodynamics, the ...

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

Nuno Loureiro was a physicist who served as the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. He also held faculty appointments in MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and ...

According to HSE, there's no law for maximum working temperature, or when it's too hot to work, because every workplace is ...