The body increases temperature to fight off infections and illness. This temporary increase in temperature, also known as a fever, speeds up immune cell functions including metabolism and ...

The temperature in Ossining topped 90 degrees three times last week; at its worst, the heat index hit 109. While much of the Westchester County community found respite in air conditioning or cool ...

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells is likely violating inmates’ constitutional rights, but he declined to order the state's prison system to ...

Prisoners inside a sweltering South Florida prison were subjected to dangerously high temperatures this summer—peaking at a "real feel" of 119 degrees in one area—according to a recent expert report ...

Moreover, bulk sequencing data led scientists to conclude that brown and beige fat cells express uncoupling protein 1 (Ucp1), which encodes the protein UCP1 that halts adenosine triphosphate (ATP) ...