These locks, lights, and other smart home upgrades let you add automation without messing up your home’s vibe.

NASA has launched the CANVAS CubeSat mission to study very-low-frequency radio waves generated by lightning and ground-based ...

Samsung's SmartThings update uses robot vacuums, appliances, and wearables to monitor elderly relatives, detect falls and ...

Heat, air pollution, and flooding can affect a city and the health of city residents. Yet few cities have a comprehensive ...

On this week's episode of the Smart Home Insider podcast, Mary-Ann Rau sits in talk through the week's news and discuss the ...

Weather apps are usually one of the most boring things on your phone. You open one, glance at the temperature, maybe check if it is going to rain, and close it without a second thought. SkyDex tries ...

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Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

Hoping to collect more information about the biggest, wettest storms that soak California each year — filling reservoirs and also causing damaging floods — a coalition of Bay Area water agencies on ...

Technology can help the home gardener in myriad ways. Technology applies scientific knowledge for practical purposes to solve problems and make life better. Technology is a tool for the garden and ...

Southern weather isn’t for the faint of heart. Whether we’re talking extreme heat in Texas, snowstorms in Tennessee, hurricanes in the Carolinas, or a little bit of everything straight up the Eastern ...