Harvard researchers have built a device called a pico-calorimeter that directly measures heat signals from small groups of living cells. 

Experimental atomic physicists have discovered there is a maximum amount of electrical resistance, or resistivity, that can result from collisions between electrons. A team from the University of Toronto, L’École Normale Supérieure in Paris and Lehigh University in Pennsylvania studied ultracold potassium atoms cooled to near absolute zero. They found when increasing the rate at which atoms collide, the resulting resistance eventually stops increasing, offering new insights into what causes resistivity at the microscopic level.