Gold remains perfectly solid when briefly heated beyond previously hypothesized limits, a new study reports, which may mean a complete reevaluation of how matter behaves under extreme conditions. The ...

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 ...

Heating that lasted only trillionths of a second raised a gold sample’s temperature to 19,000 K without melting it, a study suggests. Scientists say that they have heated solid gold for a fleeting ...