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 ...

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

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

The University of Glasgow has welcomed Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to campus to learn more about Lord Kelvin during the bicentennial year of his birth. The Princess Royal visited the ...

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 ...

What is the Lord Mayor's Show? The annual event takes place in the City of London, celebrating the new Lord Mayor taking on the role. This longstanding tradition is bursting with pomp and ceremony ...

The disappearance of society figure Lord Lucan sparked a major manhunt 50 years ago and has spawned endless theories about his whereabouts in the decades since. The British aristocrat and renowned ...

But Lord Kelvin started out as an electrician ... What squared the circle for Kelvin's math was the discovery of nuclear energy. Kelvin had based his age calculations on the melting temperature ...

A Chinese X-ray space telescope has already made several discoveries during its initial commissioning phase. The Einstein Probe, featuring lobster-eye optics and European participation ...

Here are some of the most exciting discoveries that scientists have made of that ocean-colored planet. Neptune’s true colors aren’t deep blue In a study published in early 2024, scientists ...

Seven University of Miami scholars and experts whose investigative contributions are helping to resolve challenges to Florida and beyond are honored by the Academy of Science, Engineering, and ...

While most of Lord Lucan’s friends and family insisted that he had taken his own life, no body has ever been found. The manhunt for Lucan has lasted decades. Richard John Bingham was the seventh Earl ...