During winter months, frost can unleash icy havoc on cars, planes, heat pumps, and much more. But thermal defrosting with heaters is very energy intensive, while chemical defrosting is expensive and ...

Supporters of gun control measures often say their ideas are common sense, suggesting that nearly every American supports them. If you spend five minutes discussing the topic with people at Everytown, ...

Would Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust be published today? Opinions were divided on its merits even when it won the Booker Prize 50 years ago. The novel still garners attention, not least because ...

The annual battle against ice and frost, which costs industries billions in energy and hazardous chemicals, may soon have a powerful new weapon. Researchers at Virginia Tech in the US have created an ...

We rarely think about the packaging when offering sweets or snacks to our neighbours. More often than not, it is a plastic container or a spare box that happens to be lying around. What we often ...

Every Indian kitchen has been here. The party is over, the guests are full, and the dining table looks spotless, except for that one bowl of paneer curry sitting untouched in the fridge.