Sweet foods that are cooler don't taste as good to us, but why that is has been a mystery. New research may have the answer.

Simultaneous air pollution and extreme heat events will "increase in frequency by 175% by 2050" in Southeast Asia, a report finds.

A new study suggest's that Earth's core has been leaking iron, potentially for billions of years.

Saturn is far from the sun, so why is its upper atmosphere so hot? Astronomers may have finally solved "one of the great mysteries of planetary science."

Plants and animals are remarkably similar in their responses to changing environmental conditions across the globe, a new study finds.

Composite metal foams can pass so-called "simulated pool fire testing" with flying colors, report researchers.

"We need to pay particular attention to combined extremes of heat and humidity, which are especially dangerous to human health."

City lizards can handle heat, research finds. "It's kind of like a hidden superpower that only presents itself in the right environment."

"Such high temperatures would completely melt an automobile in less than a minute."

Physicists have demonstrated the longest-yet microwave quantum link. It spans five meters and could benefit future quantum computer networks.