You hear all the time that you should wear loose-fitting and light-colored clothing when the temperature outside is so high. The idea is that dark-colored clothing retains heat while light-colored ...

To help illustrate what that heat can do — and to help us all make it through this HOT Friday afternoon — we put up an outdoor livestream to see how long it will take for the sweltering heat to melt a ...

Heat and color are related—the darker the color, the more heat that is absorbed. On a mostly sunny, 100 degree day, it doesn't take long to melt wax crayons. The video above demonstrates the order of ...

Herb Williams builds 3-D flames out of 60,000 to 70,000 Crayola crayons that melt and warp under the raging Texas sun, exposing the conditions that stoke real wildfires. As time passes, the crayons ...