The effects of The Dust Bowl in the early 1930s led to a wave of record-setting heat waves across the eastern half of the ...

Even homes build to code can have built-in health risks, such as being prone to mould. By targeting the places where heat is lost, you can make winter more bearable.

By comparison, the latent heat absorbed during boiling or evaporation is about seven times higher, enabling much greater cooling potential.

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This article was originally published with the title “Latent Heat” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 29 No. 5 (August 1873), p. 64 doi:10.1038 ...

Tracking Heat Across the World By Lazaro Gamio, Zach Levitt, Elena Shao and Malika Khurana Updated July 13, 2025 at 7:39 a.m.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have generated electricity from latent heat, the energy created when a substance transitions from a solid, liquid or gas into another state. This achievement ...

Early detection and quantification of plants’ response to disease and water shortage conditions are very important for the agricultural management. This study represents the first utilization of ...