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A giant thermometer is on display in the Turpan Prefecture of China. I don’t know what’s more ominous. The giant rod standing tall in the sky or the rising red level that measures the local ...

To create this thermometer, researchers filled a vacuum chamber with a gas of rubidium atoms and used lasers and magnetic fields to trap and cool them to nearly absolute zero, around 0.5 ...

Scientists have developed a new method for measuring temperature extremely accurately by using giant 'Rydberg' atoms. This atomic thermometer provides accurate measurements 'out of the box ...

A tourist in Death Valley takes a selfie with the local thermometer. Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images 2023-07-19T16:42:24Z ...

As record heat covers many parts of the world, people are flocking to the hottest spot of them all where temps are exceeding 130 degrees.