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More than 30 million people are under extreme weather alerts Sunday as a sweltering heat wave lingers across the West. Excessive heat warnings and watches were effective in parts of California, Oregon, Washington and the desert Southwest, with temperatures soaring well into triple-digit territory around Phoenix and approaching record highs near Seattle, forecasters said. National Weather Service offices in Phoenix …

Lifelong boat captain George Billiris says he’s lucky to be alive after Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called “flesh-eating” bacteria that lurks in warm coastal waters like those along Florida’s Gulf Coast, nearly killed him. “I started to get chills, feverish, my leg was swelling, burning,” the third-generation sponge fisherman told CBS News. Billiris was wading in the water while fishing with …

In a first, researchers have revealed the complete sensory pathway that enables the skin to communicate temperatures to the brain. It turns out that cool temperatures have an individual, dedicated pathway — suggesting the body has different circuits for deciphering warmth and coolness. This study, published July 28 in the journal Nature Communications, is the first to map out the …

An oppressive heat dome has gripped the eastern U.S. this week, prompting the National Weather Service (NWS) to issue heat warnings for nearly 170 million Americans. To make matters worse, severe humidity is making high temperatures feel even hotter. Extreme heat and humidity make for a deadly combination. The human body lowers its temperature by sweating, and when sweat evaporates, …

It’s always hot in the summer in the U.S. Southeast, but even by the standards of Florida and the Carolinas, the steamy heat wave on tap for the region Saturday into the coming week is a little extreme. The National Weather Service issued heat advisories for a large swath of the East Coast from central Florida to Virginia through much …

Gold usually melts at 1,300 kelvins—a temperature hotter than fresh lava from a volcano. But scientists recently shot a nanometers-thick sample of gold with a laser and heated it to an astonishing 19,000 kelvins (33,740 degrees Fahrenheit)—all without melting the material. The feat was completely unexpected and has overturned 40 years of accepted physics about the temperature limits of solid …

Feel those nice breezes and temps in the 70s today? Enjoy it, because it’s not going to last this week. An incoming heat dome is going to crank up those numbers. Today will be great. Yesterday’s storms are in the rear view mirror. Clouds will thin out and leave us with sunny skies. Monday and Tuesday will feel a little …