DANBURY — New sensors, designed to gauge how hot the city feels for the people who live in it, have been installed near public housing complexes in Danbury. The heat sensors are part of a research ...

Measuring temperature turns out to be a fundamental function for a huge number of devices. You furnace’s programmable thermostat and digital clocks are obvious examples. If you just needed to know if ...

Using a subtle physics phenomenon similar to—yet unlike—the well-known Seebeck effect, researchers have developed an accurate internal heat flux sensor. Why heat flux (flow) is an important thermal ...

Excess heat from electronic or mechanical devices is a sign or cause of inefficient performance. In many cases, embedded sensors to monitor the flow of heat could help engineers alter device behavior ...

In the electric vehicle (EV) era, thermal management remains a critical challenge. German automotive supplier Continental has ...

The graph at top shows TFX heat flux sensor data used to monitor resin flow and cure during an INNOTOOL 4.0 project trial employing the mold in Fig. 3 (RTM6 resin, 3.2-mm thickness). The project’s ...

Tracking energy use is recognized as more and more important in today’s world. It makes perfect sense to see the proliferation of smart energy meters and programmable thermostats that emerged in ...

Two people pick grapes in a vineyard near Fresno, California. Outdoor farm workers are on average 35 times more likely to experience heat-related illnesses than the general population. Photograph by ...

Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...