Global fast-food giant McDonalds on Monday celebrated the 20th anniversary of its debut in Moscow, an event that drew more than 30,000 curious Soviet citizens and foreshadowed the end of the Cold War.
Oil prices rose above $73 a barrel Monday, driven by news of attacks on an oil pipeline in Nigeria and persistently cold weather in the U.S. northeast.
"Long as I can see the light," whispered Cold War Kids singer Nathan Willett, covering a classic Creedence Clearwater Revival song Saturday at a sold-out Vic. Desperate yet hopeful, the tune's refrain served as an apt theme for the band's 75-minute set.
A featured article in the February 2010 issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols presents a high-throughput method for identifying DNase I hypersensitive sites across the whole genome. Another article presents a method for coupling BrdU immunoprecipitation with DNA microarrays to enable genome-wide identification of BrdU-labeled chromosomal DNA. Both are freely accessible on the Web site for Cold ...
The Denver Police Department's Cold Case Project has released information about a fugitive they are trying to locate. Jose Guadalupe Acevedo, 62, is wanted for first degree murder in Denver.
MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- January?s record cold snap caused some serious damage to Marion County roads. As a result, the county has to spend about $5 million for repairs. Some of the repairs will require more than just patching potholes.
Durham Rescue Mission volunteers loaded up in their van and headed out into the cold to bring families living on the streets into their facility with the mission's "Warm Shelter" program. Volunteer Anthony Midgette said he knows the hardship. "I've been incarcerated, into drugs by coming here it put Jesus in my life," Midgette said. Now, he is a main component of the program along with Chaplin ...
Durham Rescue Mission volunteers loaded up in their van and headed out into the cold to bring families living on the streets into their facility with the mission?s ?Warm Shelter? program.
EASTON, Pa. -- Unanswered mysteries plaguing investigators could soon be solved, thanks to the help of a Grand Jury. Today, Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli announced the list of cold cases that the Grand Jury will focus on.
Cold refers to the condition or perception of having low temperature; it is the absence of heat or warmth. People intuitively associate various notions and images with cold, such as ice and the color blue.
Cooling refers to the process of becoming cold, or lowering in temperature. This could be accomplished by removing heat from a system, or exposing the system to an environment with a lower temperature.
Fluids used to cool objects are commonly called coolants.
Air cooling is the process of cooling an object by exposing it to air. This will only work if the air is at a lower temperature than the object, and the process can be enhanced by increasing the surface area or decreasing the mass of the object.
Another common method of cooling is exposing an object to ice, dry ice, or liquid nitrogen. This works by convection; the heat is transferred from the relatively warm object to the relatively cold coolant.
Notable cold locations and objects
The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known natural location in the universe, with a temperature that is estimated at 1 K (kelvin) (−272.15 °C/−457.87 °F).1
Herschel Space Observatory instruments and detectors are kept at temperatures below 2 K, using large helium tank for cooling.2
Neptune's moon Triton has a surface temperature of −235 °C (−390 °F).
Uranus with an atmospheric temperature of −215 °C (−355 °F).4
Saturn with a temperature of −175 °C (−285 °F) at cloud tops.5
Mercury, despite being close to the Sun, is actually cold during its night, with a temperature of about −170 °C (−275 °F). Mercury is cold during its night because it has no atmosphere to trap in heat from the Sun.6
Jupiter with a temperature of −145 °C (−230 °F) at the cloud tops.7
Mars has a temperature of about −125 °C (−195 °F).8