Staying Cool: Fans Might Not Benefit Seniors In Extreme Heat
A new experiment suggests that electric fans may make older adults hotter, not cooler, during triple-digit heat because they don't sweat as much.
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A new experiment suggests that electric fans may make older adults hotter, not cooler, during triple-digit heat because they don't sweat as much.
In the course of a 17-year experiment on more than 1 million plants, scientists put future global warming to a real world test. The results, simulating a world after the year 2050, are not pretty.
Black Lives Matter, which two years ago grew out of street protests and a social media hashtag, has established a legal partnership with a California charity in a sign of the movement's growth and expanding ambition.
After competing in pageants for generations in the closet, or working behind the scenes, gays and lesbians finally get to see one of their own take one of pageantry's biggest stages.
Following a recent fight with the U.S. Department of Education, ITT Educational Services says it is ceasing operations of all its ITT Technical Institutes permanently.
Michael Hingson has been blind from birth, and tells the amazing story of how he and his guide dog, Roselle, made it out of 9/11 alive. It is a tale that will leave you breathless and inspired.
More than two years after Christina Morris vanished from a Plano parking garage, the man who is accused of kidnapping her will go on trial. Jury selection begins Tuesday in Collin County for the case against Enrique Arochi.
Progress in reducing the number of people without health insurance in the U.S. appears to be losing momentum.
A man was shot and killed by police officers in Ennis on Monday night as a traffic stop came to a violent end. But a witness said that deadly force was probably not necessary in this case.
It has to be the worst job for any TV reporter. The ones that get called to go out in the storm to cover a hurricane.
The city of Dallas will be conducting emergency training today at Dallas City Hall and Reunion Tower.
Chevy Chase has checked into a rehab facility in Minnesota for treatment for an alcohol problem.
Lawmakers will have a little more than four weeks beginning Tuesday before they are scheduled to leave town again before the election.
My Car Store of Fort Worth today handed the keys to a Toyota Corolla filled with much needed supplies, such as diapers and formula to The Battered Women's Foundation of North Richland Hills.
Many people have heard about plant species taking over a lake -- they just haven't heard about it in Texas.
