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Seebeck effect
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After a 100-year search, physicists finally observe a ‘lost’ thermoelectric effect
For the first time, scientists have experimentally observed the long theorized transverse Thomson effect, discovering that a magnetic field can switch a material between heating and cooling.
Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via…