Latest Fahrenheit Stories

By Tim CastleLONDON -- Authorities scrambled to save lives in a heatwave in northern Europe on Wednesday, hoping to avoid a repeat of the hot weather in 2003 that killed 15,000 people in France and 2,000 in Britain.In France, an 85-year-old man admitted to hospital and an 81-year-old woman found dead in her home were the first people believed to have died there because of the heat."We must be vigilant and still more vigilant," said Health Minister Xavier Bertrand. "And pay more...

If you think dinosaurs are hot today, just think back to about 110 million years ago when they really ran hot and heavy. One of the larger animals, a behemoth called Sauroposeidon proteles, weighed close to 120,000 pounds as an adult. Now, a new study led by the University of Florida suggests it may have had a body temperature close to 48 degrees Celsius.That is a 118-degree Fahrenheit normal temperature, about as hot as most living creatures can get before the proteins in their bodies...