With abundant trails in and around the city, Whitehorse is a cyclist’s playground — yes, even in -20 winter weather.

Frigid temperatures and snowstorms moved from the Gulf Coast to northern Florida and the Carolinas, according to the National ...

Thermal sensations are consciously differentiated as hot or cold by the brain; however, the neural mechanism that enables this differentiation is not well understood. To address this, researchers have ...

When we touch something hot or cold, the temperature is consciously sensed. Previous studies have shown that the cortex, the outermost layer of the brain, is responsible for thermal sensations.

When a cold front moves through town, it shoves warmer air in front of it up and over it, just like if you were shoveling snow. In many parts of the world and in most of the United States, moving ...

A mass of air called the polar vortex has escaped the Arctic and plunged southward. Some scientists see the fingerprints of climate change.

A strong polar vortex in the stratosphere has brought subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the ...