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

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

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

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

With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can have before it melts – ...