Coaxing a gas to a negative temperature on the kelvin scale has produced, paradoxically, the hottest temperature ever measured. The study, published in the Jan. 4 Science, will help physicists learn ...

Seeing its primary use in the United States while the majority of other countries use the Celsius scale, the Fahrenheit scale ...

Over an illustrious career spanning decades, William Thomson, the 1st Baron Kelvin, made tremendous contributions to the mathematical analysis of electricity, and formulation of the first and second ...

This press release is available in German. What is normal to most people in winter has so far been impossible in physics: a minus temperature. On the Celsius scale minus temperatures are only ...