Using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, the team blasted the superheated gold with pulses of ultrabright X-rays. The scattered X-ray photons ...

In their research article, “ Superheating gold beyond the predicted entropy catastrophe threshold ,” physicists revealed they were able to heat gold to over 19,000 Kelvin (33,740 degrees Fahrenheit), ...

The numbers shocked the team. Gold, typically expected to melt around 1,337 kelvins, reached a staggering 19,000 kelvins ...

Gold usually melts at 1,300 kelvins—a temperature hotter than fresh lava from a volcano. The feat was completely unexpected ...

Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved a ...

Heating that lasted only trillionths of a second raised a gold sample’s temperature to 19,000 K without melting it, a study ...

Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits ...

For the first time, physicists have directly measured the temperature of extremely hot gold particles using a giant X-ray ...

This is the so-called entropy catastrophe. This critical temperature, where a superheated solid and a liquid have the same entropy, is around three times the melting temperature. Gold has a melting ...

Metallic glass is metal that is cooled so quickly that it doesn’t form crystals, like metals typically do. Instead, metallic ...

Although quartz glass and microcrystalline glass belong to the same category of glass materials, there are significant ...

TODAY’S WORD — MELAMINE (A resin with a high melting point.) Average mark 25 words, time limit 40 minutes Can you find 36 or more words in MELAMINE? The list will be published tomorrow.… ...