The extremely low operational temperature of just a tenth of a degree above absolute zero (0.1 K) has been reached on the detectors of Planck’s High Frequency Instrument (HFI). This makes the HFI ...

Temperature is a measure of the average energy of a collection of particles. (This is in contrast to kinetic energy, which is a measure of the energy carried by a single particle.) So, to answer a ...

Earth may seem like a place with a lot of diversity, and in many ways, it is. Our planet is home to organisms that are smaller than the tip of a needle, while a few are the size of a building (like ...

The findings released Thursday bolster a key theory called inflation, which says the universe burst from subatomic size to its now-observable expanse in a fraction of a second. The new observations ...

I was reading about the quest for absolute zero temperature in New Scientist (18 March, p 10). Is there an equivalent maximum temperature? If so, what is it? And how could one reach it? I was reading ...

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The temperature of a substance, whether solid, liquid, gas or plasma, is essentially related to the speed at which its particles are moving in relation to each other. There is an upper limit on speed ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, a remnant of the Big Bang, provides a snapshot of the universe at approximately 380,000 years old, when it became transparent to light. Three satellite ...