00:46 How hot can solid gold get? A new study suggests that gold can be superheated far beyond its melting point without it becoming a liquid. Using an intense burst from a laser, a team heated a gold ...

Wafer-thin sheets of gold shot briefly with lasers can be heated up to 14 times their melting point while remaining solid, far beyond the theoretical limit, raising the possibility that some solids ...

Water ice permanently coats 10% of Earth’s land surface 1, and atmospheric ice clouds surround about half of the planet. Ice surfaces thus rank among the most ubiquitous interfaces in the natural ...