It’s the sheer quantity of water vapor that turns corn sweat from a simple biological process to a weather nightmare. According to the Washington Post, one acre of corn can release 4,000 gallons ...

Cheng developed a prototype of a superhydrophobic sweat sensor to measure vapor from insensible perspiration. The material — a superabsorbent hydrogel composite on a porous substrate sandwiched ...

Cheng developed a prototype of a superhydrophobic sweat sensor to measure vapor from insensible perspiration.

Sweat is something your body does to cool you off when it’s hot, right? But the more water vapor in the air, the hotter and stickier your skin will feel, and the harder it is for your body to ...

Relative humidity may be what gets talked about most in forecasts, but dew point is actually a much more useful measure of how much water vapor is in the atmosphere.

Natural processes by the region's ample corn crops are increasing humidity and heat indices across the Midwest.

Too much water vapor or humidity in the air means there’s no room for sweat to evaporate from your skin. In other words, you might sweat, but the sweat doesn’t have anywhere to go.

What is corn sweat? Why does it make things hotter outside? "Corn sweat" is a colloquial term for evapotranspiration, the natural process of water evaporating from plants into the air.

All that water vapor has been coined “corn sweat,” and it has some traceable patterns. Corn sweat reaches its peak between late July and late August, according to the Weather Channel.

How does corn sweat make the air humid? Due to the influx of moisture in the air from corn sweat, it raises dew points, according to another Scientific American article.

(MORE: The Good And The Bad About Sweat On The Skin) But when there is a higher dew point (meaning there is more water vapor already in the air), that evaporation process slows down. The body can ...