For two centuries, engineers have trusted a simple rule to predict how heat flows through solids, from jet-engine blades to smartphone chips. Now a set of carefully designed experiments has revealed a ...

Summer has arrived in Texas, once again inspiring the familiar tall tales of baking cookies in your car or frying an egg on the sidewalk. Although these stories are meant to illustrate how extreme ...

From Texas clear to Georgia, from the Gulf Coast on up to the Canadian border, a mass of dangerous heat has started spreading like an atmospheric plague. In the days and perhaps even weeks ahead, a ...