A time-travelling, reality-warping adventure has scooped the top prize at the University of Glasgow’s Kelvin Games Jam competition.

But as Kelvin’s second law of thermodynamics should have warned us, all the energy consumed to cool food is helping warm the planet to unsustainable levels. Generating the power to run cooling ...

Few topics have been as contentious among both scientists and laypeople as the age of the Earth. Many scientists are people of faith, but from the moment the ancients found seashell fossils high ...

Called Olbers’ paradox, the seemingly simple mystery of the sky’s darkness is something that stumped astronomers for ...

Lord Kelvin’s name comes up anytime you start looking at the history of science and technology. In addition to working on transatlantic cables and thermodynamics, he also built an early ...

In the Arizona Cardinals' 23-22 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, 21 players participated in at least one of the 53 defens ...

Years ago Domokos developed a mathematical tool for describing tessellations based on their average properties rather than ...

Current estimates for the age of the Earth owe much to Lord Kelvin, the same natural philosopher after whom scientists named the Kelvin temperature scale. En homage to his work, scientists often ...

“Heat pumps have been around since the 1850s,” he explains. “Lord Kelvin first proposed using them to heat buildings in 1852, ...

A prominent scientist from Largs has been recognised for his for exceptional achievements in engineering and computing.