At an effective temperature of 13 million kelvins, the jiggling glass sphere could help scientists understand physics at the microscale.

Scientists have built the world’s smallest engine. It consists of a single microscopic particle, smaller than a human cell, levitating in a vacuum. By rattling this lone particle with “noisy” ...

Trapped in an electric field, it shows bizarre thermodynamics at microscopic scales, offering insights into natural molecular ...

Technically speaking, an engine is a device that converts some form of energy into mechanical energy. Taking that definition ...

The heat engine works as its intrinsic spin converts heat absorbed from laser beams into oscillations of a trapped ion. Credit: John Goold, Trinity College Dublin A new heat engine made from a ...