By levitating a single particle of silica in a vacuum and blasting it with synthetic temperatures higher than 10 million ...

In the run-up to a pivotal announcement on the future of particle physics in Europe, Tessa Charles urges backers of rival colliders to unite around whichever project gets the go-ahead I sincerely hope ...

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 ...

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” ...

A team of scientists claims it has created the world’s hottest engine. The innovative engine runs at temperatures higher than the sun’s core. It is also made up of a tiny, microscopic particle ...

Researchers have developed a steam engine that's only a few micrometers wide. It works - although it does sputter a bit. (Image Credit: Max Planck Society) Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have ...