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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For some, chronic health conditions can add an extra one-two punch when it comes to regulating body temperatures. Not only do some conditions affect physiological cooling, but the medications that ...

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 ...