If you live in the Phoenix area, it is likely hard for you to imagine what it would be like to live without air conditioning during the summer. It would not be strange if occasionally, with heartfelt ...

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As summer heat builds, more people will rely on air conditioning units to keep cool. However, before air conditioning existed, people had to be creative when trying to stay comfortable in sweltering ...

Buffalo’s extraordinary June heat this year has been made tolerable by the ingenuity of a Buffalonian. Born and raised on a farm in Angola, Willis Carrier was a member of the Angola High School Class ...

Summer in Wilmington got off to a hot start, with a record-setting 99-degree day on June 24 and more scorchers sure to follow. On the hottest of days it can be hard to fathom that, for most of ...

Scientists have invented a paint that could replace air conditioning and heating while cutting energy bills in the process. The paint, invented by scientists at Stanford University, works by ...