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.

Like most ways of measuring things, the United States uses a different temperature scale than most of the rest of the world. However, the Fahrenheit scale often doesn’t make much sense compared ...

One idea is that the scale is broken into three parts, each of 32 °s, since 32 is the temperature of freezing water. This wouldn't quite work fitting in the human body temperature at 100 °F, but ...

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 ...

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 ...