You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the first ...

If you’ve ever traveled abroad or heard a story about a cold blast or a heat wave hitting another country, you've likely heard the temperature in degrees Celsius. A hot day would be close to 40 ...

Before we convert temperature scales, let’s take a step back and think about what temperature is in the first place. Temperature is proportional to the average kinetic energy of the random microscopic ...

What is temperature? This question comes up quite a bit—especially in introductory science courses. The most common answer is something like this: Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic ...

Brrr, it’s cold outside. Or is it? Depending on where in the world you grew up, Colorado’s winter weather may feel colder or less cold compared to what your body is used to. Mid-winter in Vail, the ...

Converting temperatures from Celsius to Kelvin is important both in everyday situations and in science. The Celsius scale is commonly used and is based on the freezing point (0°C) and boiling point ...

In response to my blog post Using Java Enums for Units Conversions, mr. Bear observed that another approach to implementing the enum that stores temperature scales and provides conversion ...

The world faces a significant risk of passing a crucial global warming threshold earlier than scientists had suggested, possibly as soon as 2050, a paper published Monday found. The threshold is the ...

It’s no secret that Americans have an independence streak. We don’t use the metric system. We insist on writing dates with the month before the day—something virtually no other country does. And we ...

Like most ways of measuring things, the United States uses a different temperature scale than most of the rest of the world. However, the Fahrenheit scale often doesn’t make much sense compared to the ...