The coldest and densest molecular gas clouds in the interstellar medium can have temperatures of 10 K (-505 °F/-263 °C), ...

For the first time, scientists have figured out how to measure a system, no matter how extreme the energy difference. Two UA physicists may have fundamentally altered thinking about thermodynamics, a ...

When some materials are cooled to a certain temperature, they lose electric resistance, becoming superconductors. When some materials are cooled to a certain temperature, they lose electric resistance ...

For decades, scientists quested after a room-temperature superconductor. Now that they’ve finally found one, the hunt is on for an even better material. Until last year, all known superconductors — ...

Initially regarded as a scientific curiosity upon its discovery in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, superconductivity has provided physicists with numerous theoretical challenges and experimental ...

Experimental setup for thermoelectric cooling. Courtesy: Jun Mao, University of Houston Researchers have fabricated a room-temperature thermoelectric material that is as good as the best commercially ...