The difference between frost and freeze — and why it matters for your garden

Here’s what a frost or freeze warning means for your garden. Plus, four steps you can take to protect your plants from a ...

What’s the difference between hot sweat and cold sweat?

In the first, you’re hiking uphill on a warm day, beads of sweat rolling down your forehead. In the second, you’ve just ...

There's a difference between hot and cold sweat — and one tends to smell more distinctive

Cold sweat is known as psychological sweat, while hot sweat is often the body's response to physical exertion.

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

As climate change intensifies, heat health risks from accelerated aging to bad decision-making grow worldwide. Here’s what ...
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Beyond the Butcher's Block: Unraveling the True Differences Between Prime Rib and Rib Roast for the Discerning Home Cook

To all those who have ever hovered at the butcher counter deciding between prime rib and rib roast, confusion is actually not ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Ambient Temperature Linked to Stress Hormone Changes, Study Finds

Higher ambient temperatures significantly amplify physiological stress reactivity, affecting the HPA axis and autonomic nervous system activity. Physiological stress markers increased at warmer ...

How A Marine Heat Wave Is Helping Drive Warm Fall Weather

It might feel unseasonably hot where you are right now. That's thanks in part to a heat wave in the Pacific Ocean.

From engines to nanochips: Physicists redefine how heat really moves

Heat has always been something we thought we understood. From baking bread to running engines, the idea seemed simple: heat ...
National Bureau of Economic Research

Understanding and Addressing Temperature Impacts on Mortality

A large literature documents how ambient temperature affects human mortality. Using decades of detailed data from 30 countries, we revisit and synthesize key findings from this literature. We confirm ...