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.
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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An international collaboration involving researchers from the University of Innsbruck has developed a novel luminescent material that enables particularly robust and precise optical temperature sensing across an exceptionally ...
Condensed Matter
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Nanomaterials
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As more devices get piled onto computer chips to increase processing power capacity, heat generation becomes increasingly concentrated. This heat must be removed to keep chip performance high, but is currently achieved by ...
Nanophysics
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Sometimes space exploration doesn't go as planned. But even in failure, engineers can learn, adapt, and try again. One of the best ways to do that is to share the learning, and allow others to reproduce the work that might ...
Space Exploration
Nov 4, 2025
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The rapid and energy-efficient synthesis of high-performance catalysts is a critical hurdle in advancing clean energy technologies like hydrogen production. Addressing this challenge, a research team at KAIST has now developed ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 21, 2025
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A new study from Stockholm University reveals that spruce bark beetles, already infamous for killing millions of trees in Sweden, are also changing the forest microclimate. Using a combination of temperature sensors attached ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2025
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a method to more precisely heat up gold nanoparticles to target and destroy cancerous tumors. Using imaging methods that combine light and sound to peer deeper into tissue, ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 18, 2025
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Traditional veterinary practices utilize rectal measurements to assess body temperature, but this method is stressful and does not capture continuous changes in body temperature. Fortunately, recent advancements have introduced ...
Veterinary medicine
Aug 13, 2025
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Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved a decades-old theory and upended our understanding of superheating.
Condensed Matter
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