PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry has been selected to track local temperatures to support a nationwide heat resiliency project, Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley ...

A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials for hypersonic vehicles. Their three-year research project combined ...

Last week the Biden administration awarded a whopping $6 billion to efforts to decarbonize heavy industrial sectors. About $500 million of that windfall will be allocated to projects tackling the most ...

For two centuries, engineers have trusted a simple rule to predict how heat flows through solids, from jet-engine blades to smartphone chips. Now a set of carefully designed experiments has revealed a ...

From Texas clear to Georgia, from the Gulf Coast on up to the Canadian border, a mass of dangerous heat has started spreading like an atmospheric plague. In the days and perhaps even weeks ahead, a ...

When sculptor Bobby Zokaites moved to Phoenix in the summer of 2011, walking the half mile to classes at Arizona State University in triple-digit heat felt risky. He learned to find shade along his ...