Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...

In the realm of thermodynamics, delta S or change in entropy plays a crucial role in understanding how energy is distributed within a system undergoing a particular process. Entropy, denoted by the ...

Up to 98 percent of the energy of an earthquake goes into flash heating rocks, not shaking the ground, new research shows. The finding could help yield better earthquake forecasts ...

MIT scientists have unraveled the hidden energy balance of earthquakes by recreating them in the lab. Their findings show that while only a sliver of energy goes into the shaking we feel on the ...

A Hiroshima University team has designed a feasible way to detect the Unruh effect, where acceleration turns quantum vacuum ...

Scientists have achieved a new feat in molecular editing by swapping carbon for nitrogen, enabling the direct conversion of ...

The findings resolve a long-standing problem in fundamental physics. Scientists at Hiroshima University have created a ...

In the world of metals, it has long been considered common knowledge that achieving both strength and ductility (the ability to stretch without breaking) at the same time is nearly impossible. When a ...

Physicists have upended a foundational law of materials science by heating gold to over 19,000°C — more than 14 times its melting point — while it remained perfectly solid. The study, published in ...

Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, 1-16-2 Tokiwadai, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8611, Japan ...