This article was originally featured in Knowable. It was an engineering problem that had bugged Zhibin Yu for years — but now he had the perfect chance to fix it. Stuck at home during the first UK ...

Air conditioning bills are spiking and as climate change starts to impact more parts of the country, air conditioners are running for longer periods. Now millions of Americans are starting to install ...

Air source and ground source heat pumps both offer low-carbon heating, but they suit very different homes. Here’s how the ...

Heat pumps function similarly to refrigerators or air conditioners, which take warm air from one space and send it to another. In the winter, a heat pump transfers heat from the outdoors inside and, ...

Heat pumps are a popular choice for central air in the South. They both heat and cool—despite the somewhat misleading ...

A few years ago, retired Maine couple George and Cathy Hardy installed their first heat pump inside their 1930s Cape-style house. Then they installed two more -- completely replacing their entire ...

Find out how to choose the right heat pump for your home, from system types and suitability to costs and installation ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2022. We are republishing it as part of our winter coverage. We’ve all heard the warnings: Winter is here and sky-high heating costs are expected ...

A federal spending bill that seeks in part to combat climate change will offer individual homeowners as much as $8,000 in rebates to install energy efficient heat pumps to heat and cool their homes.

A portable heat pump can both heat and cool a room, so you can replace an air conditioner and a space heater with a single unit. Portable heat pumps—sometimes marketed as "portable air ...