18-07-31 As a persistent heat wave sweeps across China, 22 counties and cities in the southwest and northeast regions of the country have experienced their hottest July on record, reports Chinanews.com. 一股持续的热浪横扫中国，国内22个县以及西边东部地区部分...

16-04-28 Researchers at University of Montreal have created a programmable DNA thermometer that is 20,000x smaller than a human hair. This scientific advance reported this week in the journal Nano Letters may significantly aid our understanding of natural an...

14-06-21 Global warming is generally expected to bring spring forward but, as a new study at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich shows, a concomitant（相伴的） influx of plant species from warmer southern latitudes could counteract this effect. C...

14-05-22 Vast amounts of excess heat are generated by industrial processes and by electric power plants; researchers around the world have spent decades seeking ways to harness some of this wasted energy. Most such efforts have focused on thermoelectric devi...

14-04-17 An international team of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep-sea temperature and ice-volume changes to provide crucial new information about how the ice ages came about. Researchers from the University of Southampton, the Nation...

14-03-24 Warmer summers brought on by climate change will cause more deaths in London and southeast England than the rest of the country, scientists predict. Researchers at Imperial College London looked at temperature records and mortality figures for 2001...

14-02-24 Here are two facts that make the lowly barnacle（藤壶） important: They are popular models for ecology research, and they are very sensitive to temperature. Given that, the authors of a new study about a bellwether（前导） community of two barnacle...

14-01-16 Soaring temperatures have halted matches at the Australian Open tennis tournament, as a report warns that the country will see hotter heatwaves. 不断飙升的气温迫使澳网公开赛暂停比赛，一份报告称热浪还将继续维持。 Melbourne, where the tournament is he...

14-01-15 Sauropods（蜥脚类动物） , the largest land animals in Earth's history, are still mightily puzzling the scientists. These plant-eating dinosaurs with their long necks and small heads could reach a height of 10 meters or more and dominated all other l...

14-01-13 For most people, below-freezing temperatures generally put a stop to outdoor exercise, but Siberian native Boris Fyodorov is not most people. 当气温降到零度以下，相信多数人会拒绝户外活动，但土生土长的西伯利亚人鲍里斯费奥多罗夫是个例外。 Minutes afte...