W. Larry Kenney is a professor of physiology and kinesiology at Pennsylvania State University. He specializes in the control of blood flow to the skin with an emphasis on aging, physiology and the ...

Because you’re a smooth-skinned mammal, no weather feels quite as oppressive as a humid heat wave. The more water vapor in the air, the less efficiently your sweat can evaporate and carry excess heat ...

It's not the heat that gets you — it's the humidity. Millions will feel that firsthand over the coming days as a heat dome is expected to bring extreme heat and humidity for much of the U.S. Those ...

Bringing indoor plants into your home is a wonderful way to infuse life and color into your living spaces. As an avid ...

How does climate change influence humid heat waves? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how a phenomenon called atmospheric ...

Hydrogen plays an important role in society’s energy transition. For the technology to be used on a broad scale, effective ...