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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have used ultrafast high-intensity lasers to superheat gold to 14 times its melting point without turning the solid metal into a liquid. The record-breaking experiment, which was described ...