Tag: Thermodynamics

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The World’s Hottest Engine Is Smaller Than a Cell and Hotter Than the Sun’s Corona

Technically speaking, an engine is a device that converts some form of energy into mechanical energy. Taking that definition to heart, physicists harnessed the strange rules of microscopic physics and created the hottest engine ever—which also happens to be the smallest engine ever made. In a forthcoming paper for Physical Review Letters, researchers describe a […]

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