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So the demand is there, as is growing support from the federal and state governments. What’s lagging is the workforce—at least temporarily. And the US is nowhere near alone: Wherever heat pump adoption is growing, more workers need to…

“There’s a massive difference in the amount of heat that our system is putting out when a user asks for heat to be comfortable versus a radiator which dumps tons of extra heat into the room,” says Vince Romanin, CEO of Gradient. “If…

Now stretch it really hard and quickly hold it to your upper lip, which is sensitive to temperature. You will feel that it's warmer than it was before. That's because you're adding energy to the rubber band, which increases its…

Walk into any hipster coffee shop and you'll be overwhelmed with a cacophony of voices talking about how So Much (For) Stardust, the title track on Fall Out Boy's critically acclaimed album that brought the band all the way to officially…

Humanity’s superpower is sweating—but rising heat could be our kryptonite, and an average temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels could bring regular, fatal heat waves to large parts of the planet, says Tom…

Lyric Massager for $172: Lyric's massager was one of our top picks. As of this writing, the brand's website is down to prepare for “a whole new Lyric experience,” but it was like that the last time we checked in November. Hopefully it…

“The answer ended up being, yes, in all US states, on average heat pumps will reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” says Eric Wilson, a senior research engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the lead author of the new…

While everyone’s been focused on accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles to cut carbon emissions, a technological hero has been rapidly ascending under the radar: the heat pump. Instead of burning natural gas or coal to produce…

It shouldn't be anyone's thing but a lot of people have a thing where they need to go to sporting events and yell at players to the point the heckling gets a response. For this group, Russell Westbrook is an easy mark because he's always…

Death is coming for the old-school gas furnace—and its killer is the humble heat pump. They’re already outselling gas furnaces in the US, and now a coalition of states has signed an agreement to supercharge the gas-to-electric transition…