Let’s start with humidity, which, in general, is a measure of the amount of water vapour in the air. In weather, we often measure this using relative or absolute humidity.

The medicine still requires new, more advanced tools for better human body diagnoses. The great developments in electronics let to construct more and more sophisticated instruments. The system ...

Absolute humidity is expressed in weight of water, grams or pounds, in a volume of air, such as a cubic meter or yard. The higher the reading the wetter. The wetter, the worse for flu virus.

It’s still flu season. The work of two researchers from Oregon State University shows that humidity levels have a big impact on the survival, transmission, and seasonality of influenza A - the type ...

Therefore, a 70-degree day with 50% relative humidity would feel more humid than a 40-degree day with 100% relative humidity. This is the result of higher dew points, says the Weather Service.