On a recent weekend afternoon, stuck in the doldrums of midsummer’s haziness, I turned to a familiar pastime activity and began to sift through bins of old photographs. After grabbing an arbitrary ...

During my lifetime, I’ve used and thrown away about 200 toothbrushes (around four per year, like my dentist has always advised). Each one, made entirely of plastic, is still sitting in a landfill ...

Touted as an industry first, a new capacitive level sensor has been designed specifically for tubes and hoses. The TLS 100 has a clip-on mounting design that is said to reduce installation time from ...

Toothpaste is a daily staple in more than 300 million Americans’ oral hygiene routines, and more people are looking for sustainable oral care products that are made with safe ingredients and reusable ...

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Looking to further reduce your plastic waste? Here's where to find plastic-free toothpaste, lip balm, and insect repellent. In support of Free the Ocean's mission to clean up the ocean and reduce ...

Commenters criticized a woman who said she went against her husband's at-home nurse's wishes by trying to have her parents visit him while he was getting his catheter changed. The anonymous woman, ...

When I was a pre-med biology student, our professor gave us a lab assignment that involved pinning an earthworm to a small piece of wood, then probing it with an electrode to observe its response. The ...