Heat waves bring dangerous and deadly lightning strikes. Here’s how to avoid getting struck. More than 30 people have been injured by lightning strikes during the course of the past two weeks ...

When the heat index reaches 90 degrees, employers would need to provide at least one 15-minute paid break every two hours. Prior to anticipated heat waves and extreme heat events, companies would also ...

New research proposes a unified theory of brain function based on criticality—a state where the brain teeters between order ...

Extreme heat can affect brain function and mental health, causing irritability, anxiety and cognitive issues, with experts ...

While the underlying mechanism is unclear, neuroscientists theorize saying something out loud separates and distinguishes it ...

Even as the heat dome enters its finale, 18 states from the Ohio Valley to the Deep South and the Carolinas to the ...

How do you know it's not something more serious, like heat exhaustion? Doctors say heat exhaustion can sneak up on a person ...

Heat exhaustion is a heat-related illness, like heat rash, heat cramps or heat stroke. Although less severe than heat stroke, if not properly managed it can lead to the more serious variant.

Research my team and I published in the journal Science Advances in March suggests that long-term exposure to extreme heat ...

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

A new study finds that entering N2 sleep—a deep phase of non-rapid eye movement sleep—may help lead to more “eureka” ...

How junk food outsmarts our brains—by hiding in our memories. New research reveals that memories of fatty and sugary foods are encoded in the hippocampus, helping explain why some cravings feel ...