Conduction is the direct flow of heat from your warm body into your colder surroundings. In winter, all that heat escaping ...

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 ...

Researchers have found that plants adapt to heat stress via a specific 'memory' mechanism. The JUMONJI family of proteins can control small heat shock genes, allowing plants to become heat tolerant ...

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 ...

Contrary to what we all learned in elementary school science class, it turns out that heat may not be necessary to make water evaporate. Scientists at MIT have made the surprising discovery that light ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Atmospheric pressure is a major part of meteorology, and it is always around us. The atmosphere presses down at nearly 15 PSI. That is "Pounds Per Square Inch". This means that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Outside a 100-year-old house on the edge of the Peak District in northern England, a heat pump’s fan blades are swiftly spinning. They’re drawing outdoor air over coils of refrigerant, harvesting ...

For two centuries, engineers have trusted a simple rule to predict how heat flows through solids, from jet-engine blades to smartphone chips. Now a set of carefully designed experiments has revealed a ...

Almost every modern electronic device generates heat, whether we notice it or not. Without proper heat management, our electronic systems would either destroy themselves or, conversely, be severely ...

A large mass of granite, located beneath the Compton and Belkovich craters on the Moon, has been slowly emitting heat for billions of years. The heat detected is not from an active volcanic eruption ...