The Ting Smart Sensor quietly monitors your home wiring for potential hazards. Here's how it fared in my house.

While there aren't a lot of moving parts on a stovetop, it is possible for connections to come loose, particularly during cleaning or installation. If the wires which connect the igniter to the ...

Cold weather exposes weak batteries fast. Here’s how to spot the warning signs—and replace it before winter leaves you stuck.

Learn how to make your car battery last longer with this expert advice from CR. These simple steps will catch any battery ...

If there's an electrical component on the fritz in your car or something that's stopped working entirely, one of the first ...

Don’t judge a kit by the box. I built six gingerbread house kits to find the best one on the market. Icing consistency and pouch shape played a big part in the ease of assembly and ability to ...

How automotive eFuses prevent a minor fault from becoming a major failure. How these circuits react and recover from short-to-ground and other short conditions. The importance of current sensing to ...

The staff at CR’s 327-acre Auto Test Center studies the automotive market, identifying the new models and trim levels that are most relevant to car buyers in the U.S. We then spend more than $2.2 ...

Cancer continues to be one of the world's top causes of death, partly because of delayed discovery of the disease. But according to a recently released study, a simple blood test may be able to ...

House Republicans introduced the SAFE Drivers Act to require a standardized English proficiency test for all commercial driver license applicants and renewals nationwide. Supporters say the measure ...

In Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” when a mysterious missile launches from the Pacific and begins bearing down on the Midwest, the biggest threat initially at the White House is a pile of ...

These days, there are so many reasons to wake up in the middle of the night, bathed in your own cold sweat: the erosion of basic civil liberties, the rising tide of authoritarian rule (and lack of a ...