Fight Over Heat Makes Wife Hot

A woman who was angry because her husband wanted her to turn up the heat pulled out a gun and shot their flat-screen TV while he cowered behind a pillow, Macomb County authorities say.

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Triangular strut system 'shrinks' in the heat

By picking your materials carefully you can build a structure that shrinks when heated (Image: Royal Society/Joseph Grima)

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Some bees like it hot, others play it cool

A bumblebee hive's thermostat is controlled by a strict division of labour, a new study has revealed.

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Shape-shifting lens mimics human eye

SOMETIMES all it takes is a quick hug, and everything looks different.

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Looks like our former vice president has problems with his units.

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U.S. record high temperatures this decade have occurred more than twice as often as record lows, says a new study released this week by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.

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In The People's Republic of China, it's no secret that the Party controls just about everything. But as Beijing suffers through its second major snowstorm this season, residents are growing weary of their leadership's control-freak tendencies.

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The beavers took cover in their underwater lodges, but hundreds of other animals were left seeking shade or a cooling breeze Thursday when a power outage hit an Australian zoo during a heat wave.

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A map designed to show the predicted effects of a 4C rise in global average temperature has been unveiled by the UK government.

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Global Climate Change: More questions than answers

This is the data: Fact: CO2 levels are MUCH higher. Probably the highest in the last few thousand years.

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But in a 2005 report in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, scientists with the Joint Bank Group/Fund Health Services Department pointed out that in studies in which subjects had their hands contaminated, and then were instructed to wash and rinse with soap fo …

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A new high-tech tool that reduces the temperature of the brain is being credited with saving a baby's life at Phoenix Children's Hospital.

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Water Quantity – Why do some areas of the country have adequate water supplies, while others struggle?

"The only books that separate ground water and surface water are our law books." - Duane Smith, Executive Director, Oklahoma Water Resources Board.

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Scientists now say peak temperatures will not fall back. Join me in taking the 10:10 pledge - it's the best shot we've got left...

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Americans, you might want to check on your sweaters and shovels — the Farmers' Almanac is predicting a cold winter for many of you. The venerable almanac's 2010 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, says numbing cold will predominate in the country's midsection, from the Rocky  …

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The planet's ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous high mark established in 1998 according to an analysis by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

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A well-preserved pterosaur with soft tissues reveals this flying reptile had hair, claws and wings that were unlike anything seen on today's living animals, suggests a new paper.

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Fight Bac! Four Simple Steps to Food Safety

www.fightbac.org ~ CLEAN: Wash hands and surfaces often because bacteria can be spread throughout the kitchen and get onto hands, cutting boards, utensils, counter tops and food. ~ SEPARATE: Don't cross-contaminate because cross-contamination is how bacteria can be spread.

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Bird flu may not have become the threat to humans that some predicted because our noses are too cold for the virus to thrive, UK researchers say.

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For the first time, superstring theorists can point to a place where their formulas help other physicists understand something they can see in their experiments.

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You may want to wait four minutes before sipping your next cup of tea.

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Habitat destruction, pollution and other problems have left nearly a third of the nation's 800 bird species endangered, threatened or in serious decline, according to a study issued on Thursday. More Articles

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Gore's Global Warming "Believers" Freeze Their Tails Off in D.C. Today

Despite two of the coldest back-to-back winters on record in most of the world, worshipers from Al Gore's Church of Global Warming convened on Washington, D.C., today to protest coal energy as a cause of the "climate crisis." I don't know about you, but I'm thinking the word "cr …

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The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for January 2009 was the seventh warmest since records began in 1880, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

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"This is a transformational development," said Jim Bellingham, the chief technologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. "I wish I had invented it."

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Victoria, Australia has suffered a bushfire disaster with high winds and a record T of 46.4 C (Melbourne) and 47.8C (Avalon, Melbourne's second passenger airport). Horrendous bushfires have possibly killed 40.

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When Google Earth was introduced in 2005, it showed how fun digital mapping could be, allowing users to zoom over the planet's continents and explore their most spectacular features.

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Temperature reached 45.1 degrees C on Friday 30 January — the first time temperatures had been above 43 degrees for three consecutive days since records began in 1855. Heatwave caused bushfires, blackouts.

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Excerpt: Falling temperatures in winter may cause an unhealthy rise in high blood pressure in elderly people, according to a new study linking cooler temperatures with higher blood pressure.

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