In both residential and commercial buildings, heating and cooling cycles can take a toll on piping systems. When pipes expand due to heat and contract when they cool, they stress joints, supports, and ...

Bitter cold can make your home do strange things in the winter months. From broken furnaces to busted pipes, extreme winter weather can wreak havoc on your house, but perhaps the most noticeable ...

Zero-thermal-expansion (ZTE) materials are widely used in precision optics, cryogenic equipment and sensors, where even small ...

Winter brings beauty to the Missouri Botanical Garden, but the cold can cause splits and cracks in trees. The cracks can become home to harmful insects. Cracks and splits in tree trunks are common and ...