Climate change: 40°C summer temperatures could be common in UK by 2100
A new study lays bare the average summer heat people in the UK can expect by century's end.
June 30, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: climate-change heat temperature-records greenhouse-gas-emissions
100 degrees in Siberia? 5 ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern
The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the planet as a whole, with serious consequences. Scientists have been warning about this for decades.
June 25, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: climate-change environment permafrost arctic heat ice russia alaska snow wildfires siberia sea-ice arctic-amplification
Triple-digit heat in Siberia? 5 ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern
The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the planet as a whole, with serious consequences. Scientists have been warning about this for decades.
June 25, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: climate-change environment permafrost arctic heat ice russia alaska snow wildfires siberia sea-ice arctic-amplification
Triple-digit heat in Siberia? 5 ways the extreme Arctic heat wave fits a disturbing pattern
The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the planet as a whole, with serious consequences. Scientists have been warning about this for decades.
June 25, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: climate-change environment permafrost arctic heat ice russia alaska snow wildfires siberia sea-ice arctic-amplification
Days with both extreme heat and extreme air pollution are becoming more common – which can't be a good thing for global health
In South Asia, days with both extreme heat and extreme pollution are expected to increase 175% by 2050. Separately, the health effects are bad; together they will likely be worse.
June 25, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: health climate-change pollution asthma models air-pollution heat india temperature lung-disease heatwave air-quality south-asia heatstroke
Team finds a way to fix 3D printing’s ‘weak spot’
Plastics are a popular 3D printing material, but mechanically weak. New technology overcomes the problem.
Tags: heat 3d-printing nanotubes science-and-technology plastics
Understanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces
Textbook formulas for describing heat flow characteristics, crucial in many industries, are oversimplified, study shows.
Tags: energy heat research mechanical-engineering school-of-engineering fluid-dynamics
Coronavirus may wane this summer, but don't count on any seasonal variation to end the pandemic
Winter is flu season – could it be coronavirus season as well? The research is mixed, but other factors besides temperature and humidity have more to do with the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
April 15, 2020 • ~5 min
Tags: infectious-diseases covid-19 sars-cov-2 heat severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-sars viruses mers-cov temperature humidity infectious-disease-research us-national-academy-of-sciences national-academies seasonal-flu flu-season
Cosmic impact obliterated early human settlement
"Such high temperatures would completely melt an automobile in less than a minute."
Tags: space fossils heat temperature meteorites asteroids glass science-and-technology
Heat and pressure morph fossil fuel molecule into pure diamonds
With the right amount of pressure and surprisingly little heat, a substance found in fossil fuels can transform into pure diamonds.
Tags: fossil-fuels heat science-and-technology pressure diamonds
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