Your water heater is usually out of sight and out of mind, which means there’s a pretty solid chance you haven’t considered what temperature to set it to in months, if not years. That temperature ...

Burns are nasty injuries — they're painful and, if you're not careful, they can quickly get infected. Two children die from burn injuries every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

There is growing interest in the microbiome inhabiting the built environment and its potential implications to human health (Hanski et al., 2012; Kelley and Gilbert, 2013; Oberauner et al., 2013).

When it comes to water temperature, a lot of us are like Goldilocks: We don't want it too hot or too cold, but just right. What you might not realize is that there are real ramifications for having ...

Home hot water heater temperatures are too high, warns a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Despite the adoption of voluntary standards by manufacturers to ...

Xcel Energy acknowledged Monday that a widely disseminated message from the company about lowering the temperature on your hot water heater "can be confusing" and the company said its energy-saving ...