Japanese researchers at Kyoto University announced in December 2025 that they invented a coin-sized generator that creates 24/7 electricity "out of thin air." In December 2025, Facebook users shared a ...

Can humidifiers help prevent the spread of viruses that can cause colds, flu and other illnesses? Although you can get sick any time of year, winter is peak season for germs such as the coronavirus, ...

Bay Area residents may have felt disoriented when they stepped outside this week. The unusually humid conditions are due to high sea-surface temperatures accompanied by light rain in the region, ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Most summer days, you hear us talk about “humidity” when describing how the air feels. While many people are familiar with the term relative humidity — the percentage of water vapor in ...

Hot, sticky and unrelenting: That has been the experience for much of the country this summer, including more than a dozen states that had record high humidity in July. Last month was muggier than ...

When it comes to Missouri summers, any lifelong resident will tell you, "It's not the heat, it's the humidity." And with multiple heat advisories issued throughout the state amid a heat dome pummeling ...

Heat and humidity will once again smother the eastern half of the country this week, pushing the heat index to dangerous levels for tens of millions of people. In the Midwest, the humidity will be ...

The first major heat wave of summer has enveloped much of the midwestern and eastern U.S. in a brutal “dome” of record temperatures and high humidity. The dome phenomenon happens when weather ...

Some hot days feel even worse thanks to high humidity, trapped heat and dew points. Cities are especially vulnerable. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. It ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs kept his shockingly massive supply of baby oil and lubricant in cabinets, drawers and an apparent humidity-controlled case — similar to a cigar humidor, according to new photos.