Physicists in the Netherlands have built a heat engine that might be the tiniest ever created. Based on “piezoresistive” silicon, and smaller than a typical biological cell, the engine could find ...

The smaller the better, and in a world of fast-developing technology, that’s called innovation. Just this month, a desk-sized turbine capable of powering a small town was announced to be under ...

Physicists led by Johannes Roßnagel at the University of Mainz in Germany, the single atom engine is about as efficient as your car at transforming the changing temperature into mechanical energy.

image: Engineers at MIT and NREL have developed a heat engine with no moving parts that is as efficient as a steam turbine. view more CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable ...

There are so many paths we humans are running down in our chase for a greener future it’s extremely hard to keep track of everything. The auto industry is trying to go electric, either by means of ...

Nelson Ireson June 6, 2008 Comment Now! Novel technologies to improve the efficiency of existing vehicles and combustion processes are the quickest route to improved fuel mileage. Hybrid cars are ...

This story was updated at 4:50 p.m. Friday, March 19, to correct the attribution of some quotes to Thomas Soulas. Akron's Echogen Power Systems has been working for more than 10 years to bring its ...