Many families have an old refrigerator in their garage for beer or frozen food. But those days may be numbered. It turns out some new high efficiency models may not work out there, where the climate ...

It's a common situation: you open the fridge, and the light doesn't come on. So you decide to save the day and just swap in a regular bulb from the junk drawer. But before you do, you should know that ...

Robert Frank: Today’s question was posed by my former student Karim Abdallah. “Why,” he asked, “does a light come on when you open the refrigerator but not when you open the freezer?” The cost-benefit ...