A well-established physical law describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law should break down when the objects are very close together.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A well-established physical law describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law should break down when the objects are very ...

Any time you see a piece of metal glowing red-hot, or turning yellow or white as it gets hotter, you’re watching Planck’s law in action. The century-­old principle, which describes how energy is ...

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A study in the journal Nano Letters shows that the well-known rules of heat transfer from a nonreflective object, called Planck's blackbody radiation law, break down if the object can be brought close ...