Have you ever placed a thermometer under your tongue and wondered how that tiny device knows if you have a fever? Or checked the weather and thought about how scientists measure temperature so ...

Have you ever noticed that your weather forecast shows both the actual temperature and a “feels like” temperature? That’s because 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) when it’s breezy and dry ...

A: Two of the more popular (and telling) measures of the severity of a winter are extremes of cold and the presence of snow. One reasonable way to consider extremes of cold might be to count the ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — It is highly unusual to get major changes in the temperature this time of the year. But this season has been a little different. Recently Rochester had temperatures only in the 50s, ...