12-09-14 If you think this summer was hot, it's nothing compared to the summer of 1913, when the hottest temperature ever recorded was a searing 134 degrees Fahrenheit in Death Valley, Calif. But while that reading was made 99 years ago, it is only being rec...
12-08-24 Numerous processes in our body fluctuate(波动,动摇) in a regular pattern during the day. These circadian (or daily) variations can be driven by local oscillators(振荡器) present within our cells or by systemic signals controlled by the master p...
12-08-09 July was the hottest month the continental US has seen since records began, federal scientists have said. 美国联邦科学家称,七月是美国大陆有记录以来最热的月份。 Last month, the average temperature was 77.6F (25.3C), hotter than the old record from J...
12-05-21 In the first study of its kind in Australasia, scientists have used 27 natural climate records to create the first large-scale temperature reconstruction for the region over the last 1000 years. The study was led by researchers at the University of...
11-12-07 Scientists have developed important new insight into the sensitivity of global temperature to changes in Earth's radiation balance over the last half million years. The sensitivity of global temperature to changes in Earth's radiation balance (clima...
11-01-15 Japanese firm NEC Avio Infrared Technologies has announced the development of a mirror that can detect flu-like symptoms, such as a fever. 日本电气株式会社红外技术公司最近研发出一款体温镜,可以照出发烧等流感症状。 The world's first mirror thermomete...
11-01-14 Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to an analysis released Wednesday by researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The two years differed by less than 0.018 degrees Fa...
10-12-21 Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a new technique that allows plasmon(胞质基因,等离子体振子) lasers to operate at room temperature, overcoming a major barrier to practical utilization of the technology. The ach...
10-11-29 Every 5C rise in maximum temperature pushes up the rate of hospital admissions for serious injuries among children, reveals one of the largest studies of its kind published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. Conversely(相反地) , each 5 C drop i...
10-08-11 A drop in the average temperature outside is linked to a higher risk of people having heart attacks, according to a new study published on bmj.com today. UK researchers found that each 1C reduction in temperature on a single day is associated with a...