What’s the culprit: A worn or misaligned flapper can let water leak from the tank into the bowl, causing constant running and higher utility bills. Why it happens: Flappers degrade over time due to ...

Pouring hot water into the toilet once a week costs nothing and takes under a minute. Home maintenance specialists say the ...

The toilet is arguably the most important fixture in any home. Failure to flush can be a nuisance, but fortunately, it's ...

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Many Americans are flushing the wrong things — and they know it. Half admit to sending clog-causing items down the toilet, leading to frequent (and avoidab ...

Our home experts share tips for preventing toilet clogs and leaks, from remaining vigilant to flushing only toilet paper.

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Earlier in April 2026, Valve engineer Natalie Vlock introduced a new VRAM optimization for Linux. Rather than letting lower-priority workloads push game ...

A new book by Stewart Brand, an architect of modern tech culture, asks: How do we prioritize maintenance? And why? But it doesn’t quite have the answers. The handsome new book Maintenance: Of ...

Hugo Chiasson and Elise Spenner report for the Harvard Crimson: Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty ...

A national study led by investigators from Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University found that transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement, or TTVR, delivered strong early results in real-world practice.

What just happened? A Valve graphics engineer may have just delivered one of the smartest quality-of-life upgrades Linux gaming has seen in a while: a fix that stops background apps from stealing ...