Summer has arrived in Texas, once again inspiring the familiar tall tales of baking cookies in your car or frying an egg on the sidewalk. Although these stories are meant to illustrate how extreme ...

Heat and color are related—the darker the color, the more heat that is absorbed. On a mostly sunny, 100 degree day, it doesn't take long to melt wax crayons. The video above demonstrates the order of ...

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 ...