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A ceiling-mounted smoke alarm, the type that chirps on a repeating interval when its battery runs low. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Why Your Smoke Detector Keeps Chirping, Even With a New Battery

Swapping the battery is supposed to end the chirping. When it doesn't, the real cause is almost always one of four things, and a dead battery usually isn't one of them.

Science  · 20 Aug 2026, 19:42  · Daniel Okafor