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

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

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 ...

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 ...

xMEMS Labs, a Santa Clara, California-based company that says it created the first monolithic silicon MEMS air pump, announced a solid-state cooling chip designed specifically for extended reality ...

The technology shifts the focus from refrigerant-based systems to hydronics, requiring skills in flow dynamics, pumps, and piping rather than traditional refrigeration techniques Regulatory pressures ...