These wayside hot box detectors, stationed on rail tracks every 20 miles or so, use infrared sensors to record the temperatures of railroad bearings as trains pass by. If they sense an overheated ...

Still, the Earth history gleaned from fossils and ice cores shows the recent heat would have been all but impossible over most of those millennia. “There’s no way to drop one hot day into the ...

Earth's average temperature remained at a record ... an average temperature record of 62.9 degrees might not seem very hot. But Tuesday's global high was nearly a 1.8 degrees higher than the ...

The inner core's outer shell and its newly confirmed innermost sphere both are hot enough to be molten but are a solid iron-nickel alloy because the incredible pressure at the center of the Earth ...

Dynamo at the centre of the Earth In the extremely hot temperatures found deep in the Earth, the core is a mass of swirling, molten iron which acts as a dynamo. As the molten iron moves ...