These are the projects I recommend building instead of just buying something off the shelf.

Window alarm sensors are an essential part of home security systems, alerting you to unauthorized entries by monitoring window openings, glass breaks and motion. Each window alarm sensor type serves a ...

Temperatures are skyrocketing for the third straight day across the Eastern US, but there’s at least three different ways to ...

As the weather cools down and days get shorter, there's nothing worse than being stuck with a damp pile of washing that ...

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The metric of how hot the air actually feels has roots in a 1979 journal paper called “The Assessment of Sultriness.” By Andy Newman In recent days, you may have seen or heard many mentions of a ...

We all hate the sticky feeling that hot, humid days bring. But what's the science behind why it makes us so uncomfortable?

A flexible battery powered by humid air can run wearables without toxic metals, and one version self-destructs when tampered with.

In the neonatal intensive care unit, the most fragile patients in medicine are often the most heavily wired. Premature babies, some weighing less than a pound, can be tethered to a tangle of cables, ...

Most gardeners look up their planting zone, note which spots get afternoon shade, and call it done. That approach works until ...