Millions of Americans are facing another round of dangerous summer heat as a weather pattern known as a heat dome settles over parts of the country, pushing temperatures higher and increasing the risk ...

Heat takes it out of you. After a long, hot day, we feel tired and grumpy. But sustained periods of heat do more than that—they age us faster. Cumulative heat stress changes our epigenetics—how our ...

Scientists have discovered something alarming about how extreme heat affects human cognition – temperatures above 90°F don’t just make people uncomfortable, they actually impair mental performance in ...

The soupy, smothering extreme heat that has scorched parts of the Northern Hemisphere this summer takes a hard toll on our bodies. It can make you feel nauseous, woozy and dehydrated. It can have ...

As temperatures rise, so does the risk of heat-related illness—especially for people taking certain prescription drugs. The body uses several mechanisms to regulate temperature: sweating, blood flow ...

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have re-engineered the popular Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) for simulating the flow of fluids and heat, making it lighter and more stable than the state ...

PNW scientists have made a flexible “fabric” that converts body heat into electricity. Heat is energy, and most of the heat we produce — from our bodies, kitchens and cars — just dissipates into the ...