Cold
-
Books
Have Refrigerators Spoiled Everything?
FROSTBITE: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves,byNicola Twilley Consider the improbable fact of the supermarket banana. In…
-
Science
Why You Can Hear the Temperature of Water
A science video maker in China couldn’t find a good explanation for why hot and cold water sound different, so…
-
World
Sweating Buckets, and Loving It: Minnesotans and Their Saunas
ACROSS THE COUNTRY Sweating Buckets, and Loving It: Minnesotans and Their Saunas Saunas in the state, part of a tradition…
-
World
Cold Snap Grips China After Snow in Beijing Causes Havoc
President Xi Jinping urged “all-out efforts” to ensure safety amid wintry conditions after a subway crash left hundreds injured in…
-
News
Across the Northeast, Officials Warn of a Dangerous Arctic Blast
Cold temperatures and fierce winds are expected to intensify throughout Friday and into Saturday.
-
World
Asia Has Had a Really Cold Month, Courtesy of the Polar Vortex
Mohe, China’s northernmost city, recorded a temperature of minus 63.4 degrees Fahrenheit this week. That was the coldest in its…