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, ...

Insulin pumps are the most advanced insulin delivery technology available today for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. An insulin pump replaces injections with a syringe or insulin pen, using an ...

The PUMP Act, a bill designed to extend workplace protections to an additional 9 million nursing parents, went into full effect last week. Now, workers will be able to sue their employers if they are ...

A heat pump water heater uses a heat pump to heat water for home use. It can replace traditional water tanks fueled by electricity, gas, propane, or oil, as well as tankless water heaters. Along with ...

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 ...

Fortunately for modern homeowners, technology came to the rescue in the late 1940s with the development of the sump pump.

Kimberly Dawn Neumann is a multi-published NYC-based writer whose work has appeared in myriad publications ranging from Forbes to Real Simple to Cosmopolitan. She’s written hundreds of articles as ...

A sump pump is an incredibly useful item to have in your basement: Unsophisticated but essential. It’s basically motorized pump in a bucket, buried below the floor of your basement or crawlspace; as ...