Long-term study validates what many coffee drinkers hoped was true
Materials with 'negative thermal expansion' exist, such as zirconium tungstate (ZrW2O8), which shrink when heated over a wide temperature range, defying typical material behavior.
T. A. Mary et al.
The 'oceanic whitetip shark' (*Carcharhinus longimanus*) was considered one of the most abundant sharks in the open ocean until dramatic population declines (up to 90% in some area...
Magnetic refrigeration, an emerging cooling technology researched since the 1990s, uses magnetocaloric materials (e.g., gadolinium and its alloys) that heat up when magnetized and ...
The 'specific heat anomaly of liquid helium' near 2.17 K, where it undergoes a lambda transition to its superfluid state, shows a sharp, cusp-like peak in its specific heat, indica...
Willem Keesom
The 'Eyjafjallajökull eruption' in Iceland in 2010, a relatively small eruption, caused widespread disruption to air travel across Europe due to its ash plume, demonstrating the fr...