A wave of unconventional coolers are making their way to the air-conditioning market—and aiming to dial down its emissions.

Heat pumps are already among the most efficient technologies for heating and cooling, but a new field known as caloric ...

A startup founded by a material physicist has been working for the past seven years to change the way we cool our food and interior spaces, and it's now taken a big step toward that goal. Here's the ...

As the planet warms, the demand for relief is exploding. The International Energy Agency predicts the number of air ...

Some solid materials can cool down or heat up when pressure is applied or released. This behavior enables cooling and heating technologies that do not rely on climate-damaging refrigerant gases. In ...

A collaborative research team from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has discovered a high-energy-density barocaloric ...

Several companies and research teams are in the process of commercializing solid-state cooling technologies. Once several technical challenges are overcome, the technology is expected to provide a ...

(a) Tetrahedral neopentyl molecules that differ only in the number of hydroxyl (–OH) groups. The –OH groups are shown in red (oxygen) and white (hydrogen). (b) Simplified phase diagram showing ...