British philosopher Bertrand Russell said of the difference between our physical world experience and the scientific world of continually changing matter, “There is … some conflict between what common ...

Most metals expand when their temperature rises. The Eiffel Tower, for example, is about 10 to 15 centimeters taller in ...

The study uncovers the invar effect, enabling the creation of a pyrochlore magnet with unprecedented thermal expansion ...

Most metals expand when their temperature rises. The Eiffel Tower, for example, is around 10 to 15 centimetres taller in summer than in winter due to ...

However, this expansion can be a real problem for many technologies like precision instruments or spacecraft. That’s why ...

They arranged dozens of red Solo and clear plastic cups, each containing one alum crystal, on the room’s large wooden table.

It’s been almost a month since the Syracuse Academy of Science girls basketball team has played on its home court. Last month, the SAS building was closed for a few weeks after a carbon monoxide leak.

A vast field of tall, skinny trees sways in a light breeze. In the future, poplar trees in a scene like this could be a ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

"On short timescales, glass behaves much like a solid. But the liquidlike structure of glass means that over a long enough ...

Most metals expand when their temperature rises. This effect is extremely undesirable for many technical applications. Now, scientists have created a new material that hardly changes in length over an ...

Most metals expand when their temperature rises. The Eiffel Tower, for example, is around 10 to 15 centimetres taller in ...