Exposure to heat can alter the way your DNA works, according to a new study. The effects could lead to long-term health ...

These findings are raising concerns among scientists about how climate change and heat waves might be deteriorating bodily ...

Greater exposure to heat may hasten biological aging in older adults, results from a cohort study published in Scientific ...

Researchers from the University of Southern California studied blood samples from 3,868 adults who are 56 years or older ...

A new study found that living in areas in the U.S. with extreme heat may speed up biological aging in older adults. Here's ...

Older adults residing in areas with frequent very hot days showed significantly faster epigenetic aging compared with those ...

The NWS points to Florida, where residents are better prepared for 90-degree heat than in, say, Alaska. In Wisconsin, for example, daytime heat index values between 100 and 104, or heat indices ...

Number of Heat Days at Extreme Caution+ (≥90°F) across the U.S. Heat is measured using the Heat Index. Data represent the yearly average from 2010 to 2016. A new USC Leonard Davis School of ...