The first law of thermodynamics is undergoing a huge renovation. A team lead by researchers at West Virginia University released a paper detailing how the fundamental law can be applied more broadly ...

The amount of energy in the universe is constant and can neither be destroyed nor created, that's what the first law of thermodynamics tells us. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

When I began my power industry career years ago (initially in the chemistry lab of a coal-fired power plant), the criticality of proper chemistry control of steam boilers, cooling water systems, and ...

People not in the refrigeration business often think that refrigeration equipment produces cold air; in fact, the equipment is actually removing heat from air and leaving what’s left — the cold. When ...

Image of argon plasma glowing a bluish color in an experiment at the WVU Center for KINETIC Plasma Physics. (Credit: WVU Photo/Brian Persinger) The four laws of thermodynamics are an established ...

I find it odd that some people still express skepticism or outright denial of climate change science. Physicists derived one of the fundamental insights into climate change by 1850: Air holds 7% more ...