News tagged with thermal behavior

Startling thermal energy behavior revealed by neutron scattering

(PhysOrg.com) -- A discovery by researchers working at the Spallation Neutron Source upends long held assumptions about the microscopic behavior of materials in an equilibrium condition. The findings could ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon'

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's first-ever moon temperature-mapping effort has returned its first data.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Flatland physics probes mysteries of superfluidity

(Physorg.com) -- If physicists lived in Flatland—the fictional two-dimensional world invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel—some of their quantum physics experiments would turn out differently (not just ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3