Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dolbear’s Law shows you can estimate outdoor temperature by counting the chirps of a snowy tree cricket and applying a simple ...

Don't have a thermometer? Don't need one. All you need is a little help from an insect. STEP 2: Subtract 40 from that number, divide the result by four and add 50. The final result is close to the ...

Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist, and Frank E. Lutz, curator of insects at the American Museum of Natural History, played scientific tricks with a cricket. They played the black bug ...

In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step outside on a summer night, listen carefully, and estimate the temperature with ...