RIKEN physicists have found a magnetic material that converts heat into electricity with high efficiency, making it promising ...

Using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, the team blasted the ...

One of the shared, fundamental goals of most chemistry researchers is the need to predict a molecule's properties, such as ...

Gold remains solid at extreme temperatures, challenging thermodynamic laws and offering new insights for material design.

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 ...