Physicists have upended a foundational law of materials science by heating gold to over 19,000°C — more than 14 times its melting point — while it remained perfectly solid. The study, published in ...

This overview discusses the fundamental principles and evolving methodologies employed to characterise moisture sorption isotherms and thermodynamic properties in a diverse range of materials.

Repeatedly energising a collection of ultracold atoms should destroy their collective structure, but quantum effects seem to counteract the process. “We expected to see the opposite,” says Nӓgerl. The ...