“A heat pump thermostat is designed to have multiple options for heating your home,” Sherman says. “These are often referred to as ‘two heat, one cool’ thermostats, or similar verbiage.” Because heat ...

Researchers find that drying hydrogels briefly turns them into strong, reversible adhesives, opening new uses in robotics and material handling.

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With the Central Maui Landfill’s limited capacity expanding and 400,000 tons of Lahaina fire debris on its way, a company is proposing a $225 million, privately funded project to convert solid waste ...

An exploration of what independence from purchasing fossil fuels or electricity on the market would achieve, and how we could ...

As few as five electrons in a semiconductor can exhibit collective behaviour, forming a “Coulomb liquid”, according to researchers in Europe. This extends the study of correlated systems to electron ...

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a nanomaterial capable of simultaneously ...