text: Thermal transport in non-metal solids was usually considered to be governed by the three-phonon scattering process, and the role of four-phonon and higher-order scattering processes was believed to be negligible. Recent studies have shown that the four-phonon scattering can be important for nearly all materials at high temperature  and for certain materials at room temperature. The predicted significance of four-phonon scattering in boron arsenide was confirmed by experiments.