Excessive heat can hit at any time during the year, even if temperatures over 100 degrees are the norm where you live. And sometimes, the weather can become unbearable. In bouts of extreme heat, your ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. When summer starts with a stifling heat wave, as many places are seeing in 2024, it can pose risks for just about ...

People across the U.S. are starting to feel the brunt of the first major heat wave of the season, which is expected to bring scorching temperatures that could reach in the three-digit threshold across ...

Many countries across the globe are facing dangerously high temperatures. Here’s what to do to stay safe. By Hannah Seo Large swaths of the United States, as well as many parts of Europe, China and ...

Climate change has been exacerbating heat waves, and the problem isn’t going away anytime soon. An increasingly hot planet — due largely to burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas — ...

Are you waking up in a puddle of sweat — if you can sleep at all? That’s the grim reality for millions of people around the globe suffering through severe, unbearable heat waves. July is the hottest ...

It’s a question I’m sure was keeping you up at night: can you make an object spin with a sound wave? The answer, generally speaking, used to be no. Now, though, mechanical engineers have taken a look ...