A new material called Alloy 30 shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled and it could help with telescope ...

New technique that accurately measures how atom-thin materials expand when heated could help engineers develop faster, more powerful electronic devices ...

In summer, temperatures can climb very high, especially during heatwaves. You may have seen images of roads warping, buckling ...

Sections of road in the Finger Lakes region buckled due to the hot temperatures, on Route 390 in Greece and near Mount Morris ...

The thermal expansion phenomenon, where volume expands on heating, is a common quality seen in almost all material. Instruments utilizing the thermal expansion phenomenon, such as alcohol ...

Certain metal alloys – known as Invar alloys – don’t expand when they get hot. In a new study, researchers have discovered that at high temperatures, the intrinsic magnetic properties of the alloys ...

Most materials expand when heated. A few, such as water just above freezing, contract. Now, for the first time, physicists have found a material that switches from expanding to contracting in the ...

Now, a team of researchers is proposing a material that seemingly does it all. It's reasonably conductive, it allows lithium ...

Most crystalline materials expand when heated. Now, the packing arrangement of an organic dumbbell-shaped molecule is seen to bring about a large thermal contraction of its crystal lattice.

NASA is getting closer to building the powerful telescopes needed to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system, thanks ...

Most materials expand when they get warm. Researchers have now succeeded in developing a metal alloy that practically does not expand.