Thermal techniques are analytical or processing methods that monitor or exploit changes in a material’s properties as a function of temperature and, in some cases, time under controlled thermal programs. They include differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential thermal analysis (DTA), thermomechanical analysis (TMA), and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA). These techniques quantify phenomena such as phase transitions, glass transitions, crystallization, decomposition, and thermal expansion, providing thermodynamic and kinetic parameters, stability profiles, and structure–property relationships critical for materials science, polymers, pharmaceuticals, and other temperature-sensitive systems.
Future fusion power plants aim to recreate the heart of a star here on Earth to power our future energy needs. While the core fusion plasma will burn at hundreds of millions of degrees, the surrounding structural components ...
Condensed Matter
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Efficient heat management in solids is key to advancing the next generation of electronics. However, wave-like heat movement—known as phonon focusing—had been observed only at extremely low, or cryogenic, temperatures, limiting ...
Condensed Matter
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New research led by atmospheric scientists at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa found that the century-old yardstick used across many industries to estimate air-conditioning and refrigeration energy demand—called cooling ...
Environment
Jul 23, 2026
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Elementary school children equipped with thermal cameras are helping redesign their schools to cope with hotter summers, thanks to a University of Surrey program that gives pupils the tools to spot dangerous heat hotspots ...
Environment
Jul 22, 2026
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Scientists have long known that heat can be used to help fight cancer. But heating tumors and cancer cells is trickier than it sounds. Apply too much heat and patients could get hurt; apply too little or target the wrong ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 8, 2026
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"Complex chemical processes are essential for making DNA." This long-held assumption in the field of biotechnology has been overturned by a Korean research team. A KAIST research team has developed the world's first foundational ...
Biotechnology
Jul 7, 2026
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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can help scientists determine the three-dimensional structure of proteins in unprecedented detail. Jacques Dubochet, former group leader at EMBL, shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 23, 2026
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When living cells grow, divide or respond to drugs, they give off tiny amounts of heat that offer information about what the cells are doing. But because these heat signals are so vanishingly small, they have traditionally ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 16, 2026
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Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have developed a light-driven technique that quickly amasses thousands of bacteria into a single spot, boosting detection speed and sensitivity. Their approach paves the way for earlier ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 24, 2026
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In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier observations from Earth-based ...
Planetary Sciences
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