Temperature

Another month, another wild heat record. Vietnam set its all-time national high temperature over the weekend with…

As one might expect, the desolate and remote East Antarctic Plateau is home to Earth’s coldest temperatures. What is…

Well here’s a fun trick for any New Yorker who wants to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius easily, courtesy of Google…

The most accurate way to take an infant’s temperature—a rectal thermometer—is also one of the most unpleasant. But…

Need to take a temperature in a hard-to-reach spot? Researchers have created the world’s smallest thermometer from…

It’s just one-degree, right? So, how big a difference can it really make? There’s a place in the world where we can…

If you work in an office, chances are you or the person sitting next to you has grumbled about it being too hot or…

This eerie picture shows an Antarctic research station which is used to store, of all things, snow samples. But with…

Movies can show so much just from tweaking how a scene looks. Steely, icy, blue, colder looking scenes can mean…

The foundation for comfort outdoors, a sleeping bag is probably the most essential item of camping gear. But, they…

Last week, NASA and NOAA announced that 2014 was the hottest year in Earth's recorded history. This animation by…

What if your dining room table could show you when your coffee or cocoa is too hot to drink? That could be a reality…

A comprehensive review of the state of the Arctic reveals some troubling information about rising temperature rates,…

Sure, you could just download a weather app to see what conditions are like outside your front door, but where's the…

We often hear temperature changes explained on a global scale, but just how are those changes playing out in your…

The fire hydrant that we know today traces its origins back to fire plugs. Water mains that transported fresh water…

The sound of summer is ice cracking as you pour yourself a cold drink. Hearing that snap and pop cools everybody…

A team of researchers has made the world's most sensitive thermometer at room temperature, which is three times …

And they're putting it aboard the International Space Station, where it will be generated inside an "atomic…

With Minute Physics videos we pretty much expect to have the universe explained to us in . . . a minute. Or maybe a…