Substantial progress has been made in the quest for room-temperature superconductors, setting the stage for a potential ...

Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

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Building a thermometer is a matter of precise technology—putting just the right amount of mercury into a specially designed glass tube, for instance—but determining which numbers to use on the ...

When we think of an earthquake, we imagine the shaking of the ground and the destruction it can cause on the surface. But ...

Celsius is the obvious temperature scale of choice when conducting scientific experiments. Water freezes at 0. It boils at 100. It is beautiful and simple and has a lot going for it, not least of ...

Temperature conversion represents one of the most frequently encountered mathematical operations in academic science, yet traditional methods often prove cumbersome during time-pressured examinations.