The Trump administration’s cuts to heat research come at a time when climate change is making extreme heat waves more common and intense.
What Makes a Heat Dome Different from Regular Heat Waves A heat dome forms when an exceptionally warm air mass at middle ...
Many local high school football games will have a delayed start tomorrow night due to Friday’s very hot temperatures in the Upstate.Most schools have decided to move kickoff times from 7:30 to 8:00 ...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A common talking point aimed at refuting human-caused climate change is that the 1930s was the hottest decade in recorded history. This is true, but only for the United States ...
As extreme heat claims more lives during ruthless summers in the region, Southern Nevada is upping the ante in its tree planting efforts. But a new study suggests trees alone may not be enough to make ...
Synthetic quartz may help reduce the carbon footprint of industries that produce things like glass, steel, and cement. In recent experiments, Federal University of Technology, Zurich, engineer ...
Last June, Aaron Flansburg felt the temperature spike and knew what that meant for his canola crop. A fifth-generation grower in Washington state, Flansburg times his canola planting to bloom in the ...
Electronic devices for seeing in very dim light have become commonplace, but all of them are blind in total darkness. Last week Baird Associates. Inc. of Cambridge, Mass, showed a recently ...
Summertime means sweat, sticky skin, and strange wet spots on your clothes. You might prefer to avoid that sun-induced drip, but leaving that all behind means leaving all the summertime fun behind—a ...
The friction-heated cockpit of a high-speed airplane has to be cooled elaborately to keep the pilot alive. If the pilot is taken out, and the craft becomes an unmanned missile, its interior must still ...
Cassini’s new analysis shows Saturn’s moon Enceladus leaking heat from both poles, not just the south. This balanced heat flow suggests its underground ocean could stay liquid for geological ages, ...