Space is filled with a variety of objects, some blisteringly hot, some tremendously cold, but areas with little to nothing at all never drop to absolute zero thanks to a fossil relic left over from ...

George Pickett: his experiments were described as 'the Big Bang in a drop of helium' - Science Photo Library/DPA Professor George Pickett, who has died aged 85, invented forms of nuclear refrigeration ...

BEIJING -- The Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), released on Monday the world's first strategic research report focusing on the development of high-temperature ...

On April 8, 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes scribbled in pencil an almost unintelligible note into a kitchen notebook: “near enough null.” The note referred to the electrical resistance ...

For many years, physics studies focused on two main types of magnetism, namely ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. The first type entails the alignment of electron spins in the same direction, ...

Fritz London Memorial Prize recognizes pathbreaking work in low-temperature physics AMHERST, Mass. — Robert B. Hallock, distinguished professor emeritus of physics at the University of Massachusetts ...

David D. Nolte receives funding from the National Science Foundation. On April 8, 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes scribbled in pencil an almost unintelligible note into a kitchen notebook ...

MIR Vibrationally-Assisted Luminescence (MIRVAL). (Courtesy: Dr Rohit Chikkaraddy, Assistant Professor in Physics at the University of Birmingham) A new, streamlined method of “seeing” vibrations in ...