Relative humidity is a simple concept as weather phenomena go – but it has significant, far-reaching consequences for how we must take care of ourselves on a hot or wet day. Humidity is the amount of moisture in the air around us, and there are three ...

It's not just the heat. Learn why Georgia's humidity makes summer feel more intense and how it affects your body's natural cooling system.

Reliable operation of data centers has become essential to nearly all sectors of modern society, including health care, education, government services, power grid operation, banking, defense and disaster relief.

A child’s death inside a hot car and more than 25 heat-related incidents and hospital transports during World Cup matches at Miami Stadium are reminders that South Florida’s summer heat poses major

The most dangerous heat and humidity of this stretch arrives Thursday and Friday, with heat index values climbing as high as 110°. Expect a miserable night ahead. Dew points will stay in the 60s and low 70s with overnight lows only dropping to the 60s and low 70s — making sleep difficult.

In a novel experiment at the University of Cincinnati, researchers recently isolated kissing bugs, fruit flies, mosquitoes and spider beetles in a climate- and light-controlled environment and found that they responded predictably to cycles of humidity in the same way they do to temperature and daylight.