Kitchen smoke alarms are supposed to protect you from the leading cause of home fires, not punish you every time you sear a ...

Smoke alarms save lives, but if they shriek every time you sear a steak or run a hot shower, you are more likely to silence ...

Place a thermometer inside a glass of water, place the glass on the middle shelf of the refrigerator and let it sit for at ...

Robot vacuums have steadily improved their cleaning performance and object avoidance over the years, but during our testing at CNET Labs, we discovered an odd trade-off.

Winter is here and it's going to stay for a while. And with the cold weather comes condensation which tends to form when warm air collides with chilly surfaces or when there's too much humidity in ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Most summer days, you hear us talk about “humidity” when describing how the air feels. While many people are familiar with the term relative humidity — the percentage of water vapor in ...

Hot, sticky and unrelenting: That has been the experience for much of the country this summer, including more than a dozen states that had record high humidity in July. Last month was muggier than ...

Not only are Iowans sweating in this heat, but the corn stalks are too. High temperatures are expected to be in the high 80s to low 90s in Des Moines this week. Some areas in the northwestern and ...

Heat and humidity will once again smother the eastern half of the country this week, pushing the heat index to dangerous levels for tens of millions of people. In the Midwest, the humidity will be ...

According to fire officials, they were called to Division Street for a kitchen fire on the third floor of a multifamily home. When firefighters arrived at the scene, a window in the third-floor ...