Hot and cold are measured using a numeric scale called temperature. Temperature scales are how we communicate about the weather, measure safety and comfort and explain the physical world.

As the summer solstice marks the official start of summer, southeast Texas is experiencing sweltering conditions with ...

At any rate, the Celsius scale, based as it is on the number “100”, made chemistry much simpler for people who were less than ...

inventor of the mercury thermometer and the temperature scale that bears his name, sold for just US$93,750. The 300-year-old thermometer had been unknown by the scientific community until 2012 ...

I SHALL feel greatly obliged if any reader of NATURE can inform me what scale the thermometer referred to in the following extracts was made to:—“7 Feb., 1775. This day the thermometer was ...

I am typing this from the Atlanta area right now, and it’s cold. In fact, the current temperature at my house is 9 degrees F and the winds are roughly 24 mph. That means it feels like -5 degrees ...

When I’m asked about essential kitchen tools, I tend to jump straight into the big-ticket items used to actually prepare the food — a Dutch oven, blender, instant-read thermometer, scale ...

IN NATURE of September 7, p. 365, Dr. N. V. Nordenmark is credited with the remark ” that the thermometer of Anders Celsius used the scale of de l'Isle, the freezing point being at 100°, the bo ...