Engineers that work with fluids need a solid understanding of how they behave, and there’s one branch of fluid mechanics that plays a role in areas all across our lives. Whether you’re designing a ...

[Tom Murphy], Physics prof at UCSD decided to test out exactly how efficiently he could boil water. Armed with a gas stove, electric kettle, microwave, and a neat laser pointer/photodiode setup ...

While we'd all love to have time to wait for the water in a tea kettle to boil whenever we want to make a cup of tea, ...

Imagine a teaspoon of boiling water at 100°C and a large bowl of water at room temperature (about 20°C): the teaspoon of water could not melt an ice cube - even though each particle has a ...

says Rodolfo Nóbrega at the University of Bristol – and the Boiling River illustrates this perfectly. "As you increase [the region's] temperature, even though you have water availability ...