Editor’s note: The KOIN 6 Weather team is presenting weather and science lessons to help serve our teachers and students. Click here for more lessons. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – We’re heating up the ...

Parallel plates: illustration of the quartz plates used to measure heat transfer. (Courtesy: M Ghashami et al/Phys. Rev. Lett.) New insights into why heat transfer between objects is enhanced at very ...

Have you ever wondered why we wear clothes? I mean, beyond the obvious. Why does wearing a jacket in the cold keep your warmer? What is happening to all the heat inside your body? In this episode of ...

Heat transfer under pressure: A boron arsenide crystal placed between two diamonds in a controlled chamber with thermal energy transported under extreme pressure. (Courtesy: Y Hu) The thermal ...

The particles of liquids are further apart than solids. This means that most liquids are poor conductors of heat because the frequency of collisions is reduced. The particles of gases are even further ...

It turns out that the familiar ground-shaking is only a small portion (10%) of the total energy released. While a tiny ...

TPU researchers together with their colleagues have developed a new analytical model of heating and evaporation of binary droplets. It takes into account the conjugate heat and mass transfer both in ...