If you want to heat or cool your home, a heat pump seems like the logical solution. Here's everything you need to know to decide whether getting one makes sense for your home. Andrew King is an ...

Heat pumps date back to the 1850s and are more energy efficient than furnaces or boilers. Image: Schon via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

Heat pumps are electric appliances that can both heat and cool your home. Scientists see them as a climate solution because heat pumps reduce planet-heating emissions. They cut pollution from burning ...

We independently review everything we recommend. We may make money from the links on our site. Learn more› By Liam McCabe After a decade of reporting on HVAC and other major appliances, I took a break ...

As energy costs continue to climb and extreme weather conditions caused by climate change push homeowners toward cleaner and more efficient heating and cooling solutions, heat pumps have emerged as a ...

The percentage of households burning home heating oil is the highest in the country. Yet no other state is adopting climate-friendly heat pumps as fast. By Cara Buckley It may have been a warmer than ...

Outside a 100-year-old house on the edge of the Peak District in northern England, a heat pump’s fan blades are swiftly spinning. They’re drawing outdoor air over coils of refrigerant, harvesting ...

Japanese heating system manufacturer Daikin has unveiled a new residential heat pump series that allows homeowners to heat and cool a space independently. Dubbed Oterra 115V, the new single-zone ...