Volume expansion takes placein liquids and gases. It depends in the change in temperature, fundamental volume, and the kind of substance. When something alters temperature, it increases or decreases ...

Materials with negative linear compressibility are sought for various technological applications. Such effects were reported mainly in framework materials. When heated, they typically contract in the ...

Earth's oceans rose an average of three inches since 1992, and the warming waters show no signs of stopping, NASA announced on August 26. Steve Nerem, a climatologist who leads NASA's Sea Level Change ...

When the search for habitable exoplanets requires a 1,000 times more stable telescope than James Webb Space Telescope, even minimal material expansion down to a fraction of the width of an atom is the ...