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

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), ...

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

Fifteen students from the Reynolds School of Journalism spent 10 days in Paris reporting on exhibition matches and Parisian ...

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

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

The Carson City School District is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Sara Casacca as the new vice principal at Mark ...

Doug Lloyd joined the Eaton County Prosecutor's Office in 2000 and was appointed county prosecutor in 2013 before winning ...

Kidder Mathews has arranged the sale of LEV Apartments, a multifamily property located at 1617 N. Virginia St. in Reno. A Sacramento, Calif.-based private real estate investment firm acquired the ...

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 ...

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.

Lake Mead, capable of storing about 29 million acre-feet of water, supplies drinking water to tens of millions of people.