Many people take their own temperature with a thermometer when they think they may have caught a cold. If the temperature is between 38 and 39 degrees, it can be said that there is definitely heat. Is ...

In a recent article, a number of scientists at Stanford (Protsiv et al.) raised the puzzling question of why the average human body temperature has decreased since the Industrial Revolution. Our ...

どうにも気分が優れず「風邪を引いたかも」と思った時、まずは体温計で自分の体温を測る人は多いはず。38度～39度であれば確実に熱があるといえますが、37度前後だと微熱なのか平熱が高いのか微妙なラインであり、判断するためには普段から自分の体温 ...

When you’re feeling sick and wondering whether to go to work or school, the thermometer often has the final verdict. Most people have been taught a body temperature of 98.6 Fahrenheit is normal, while ...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft was 25 billion km away in February, somewhere in the outer edge of the solar system. It’s the farthest a human-made spacecraft has gone from the earth. The hope is that in the ...

That thermometer reading you barely glance at during a doctor’s visit? It might be hiding critical information about your health that goes far beyond checking for a fever. While we’ve long treated ...

An oppressive heat dome has gripped the eastern U.S. this week, prompting the National Weather Service (NWS) to issue heat warnings for nearly 170 million Americans. To make matters worse, severe ...