After years of sticky summers in small city apartments, my childhood memories of air-conditioned houses started to feel more and more distant. Living in buildings with small, oddly-shaped windows or ...

To find the best air conditioners to recommend, our team tested more than a dozen units in our homes and offices in bedrooms, rooms with tall ceilings, and windowless spaces. Of the bunch, these are ...

As is the case for many people, my home cannot be retrofitted with central air. My 100-plus-year-old Brooklyn apartment, which features prominently in my seven years of air quality reporting for WIRED ...