Persistent heat is doing more than making people break a sweat. It’s breaking roads and sidewalks in the metro.

Cordierite, the material behind heat-resistant pizza stones, has been shown to resist changes in size despite significant temperature fluctuations. The reasons for this have been largely unexplained ...

Most metals expand when their temperature rises. This effect is extremely undesirable for many technical applications. Now, scientists have created a new material that hardly changes in length over an ...

Hyderabad: Telangana’s industrial zones have experienced a significantly sharper rise in heat stress than non-industrial ...

Most metals expand when their temperature rises. The Eiffel Tower, for example, is around 10 to 15 centimetres taller in summer than in winter due to its thermal expansion. However, this effect is ...