Your window sills can do more than look pretty. These clever things help keep pests out — no traps, chemical sprays, or ...

Cold weather has descended on much of the U.S., with bitter temperatures affecting even states that are usually spared, such as Florida and Mississippi. It can be difficult to keep your house feeling ...

Physicists at CU Boulder have designed a new material for insulating windows that could improve the energy efficiency of buildings worldwide—and it works a bit like a high-tech version of Bubble Wrap.

Samsung’s adorable and round home assistant robot, Ballie, was not released as promised in mid-2025, and the company now notes that the little Gemini-powered bot simply isn’t ready with yet another ...

Watch a carnivorous Venus flytrap growing and eating before your eyes in this time-lapse. A dormant flytrap was planted into a pot filled with soil mixture and moist wood fiber on the surface. We ...

Professor Gideon Wasserberg at UNC Greensboro has been awarded a prestigious $3.7 million National Institutes of Health R01 grant to advance his research on controlling sand flies, the vectors of the ...

Firefighters in Contra Costa County got an interesting call on Friday when a red-tailed hawk ended up inside a home. The bird of prey flew in through the Rossmoor resident's bedroom window. The bird ...

Top view of glasses of leftover wine - Andrey Solovev/Shutterstock Of all the possible pests in a kitchen, fruit flies might just be the peskiest. These tiny flying bugs enter your home through open ...

I hate bugs inside my home. And while fruit flies are the least serious offender in my mind (bed bugs and roaches are much worse), some people can’t stand them. Instead of swatting at the air in a ...

A young shooting victim ran into a building near the National Mall for help Friday afternoon, with a bullet hole seen in a window at the Smithsonian National Air and Space museum in the aftermath.