Thomas R. Farino Jr. ’67 and his wife Patricia Farino have made a $5 million gift to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ...

Energy independence cannot only mean relying on fossil fuels within our borders. It must include wind, solar, geothermal and ...

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay.

A team of scientists have suggested a possible solution to the famously tricky black hole information loss paradox, first ...

DECEMBER 11, 2024 — Sabah Bayatli ’15 earned his master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on sustainable energy ...

In fields ranging from immunology and ecology to economics and thermodynamics, multi-scale complex systems are ubiquitous. They are also notoriously difficult to model. Conventional approaches take ...

Supplying fuel to remote military bases has always been an expensive headache. A new miniature reactor can produce hydrogen ...

Janelle Brown was missing her late son, Robert Garrison Brown, on her first Thanksgiving without him. On Sunday, December 1, ...

BurnMan is a Python library for generating thermodynamic and thermoelastic models of planetary interiors. It began as a working-group at the 2012 CIDER workshop in Santa Barbara. If you use BurnMan in ...

Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Fine Petrochemical Engineering, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, PR China ...

Statistical physics and thermodynamics provide a framework for relating the behaviour of microscopic particles to the macroscopic properties of a system. Thermodynamics casts these macroscopic ...