When adding a fireplace to your home, you may have compared the operational costs and performance levels of gas stoves and their wood burning counterparts. If you decided on a natural gas fireplace, ...

There’s nothing that delivers cozy quite like a fireplace to gather around on a chilly winter day. With a wood fireplace, there’s time and effort involved—chopping wood, keeping wood stored and dry, ...

Southern California’s air quality in 2017 is much cleaner than it was a generation ago, thanks to some of the nation’s most stringent regulations. A 2016 USC study that tracked the health of Southern ...

Jonathan Levy has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Health Effects ...

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Cooks love their gadgets, from countertop slow cookers to instant-read thermometers. Now, there’s increasing interest in magnetic induction cooktops—surfaces that cook much faster than conventional ...

It won an Oscar for Ingrid Bergman in the movie “Gaslight,” and it delivered the punchline of a Daffy Duck cartoon. Also on the rise: interest in research, like a Stanford study on gas stoves, ...