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Nicole Yunger Halpern, runs arguably the best-named research group in the universe: . Her work involves re-envisioning thermodynamics for the quantum age. The physics of steam engines and industrial machinery was worked out about a century before quantum theory was crystallised in the 1920s – and nearly two centuries before tech start-ups began using quantum physics to build computers and sensors – so she and her team believe thermodynamics is now due an update.