Winter is the season of thermometers. Weather forecasts are full of reports of the rising and falling of mercury in glass tubes, reported to be above or below the usual average. In many homes, parents ...

Museum entomologist Steve Brooks uses the heads of midge larvae to trace temperature change through time and calibrate global climate models. The larvae act as a midge thermometer, accurately ...

When your child is sick, monitoring fever symptoms becomes something like a part-time job. And when you’re checking and rechecking (and rechecking . . .) your little one’s temperature, the right ...

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