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White polo shirt with yellow sweat stain under the sleeve

Blue light beats bleach for yellow stains

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You need to clean your microwave more often. Here’s how.

By Debbie Wolfe

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How to get your stale-smelling clothes ready for sweater weather

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Amber tree sap dripping from a branch.

How to keep tree sap from ruining your car’s paint

By Maddi Langweil

Look inside London’s new Super Sewer, an engineering marvel for rubbish and poo

Look inside London’s new Super Sewer, an engineering marvel for rubbish and poo

Person holding laptop and a white reusable water bottle.

You’re probably not washing your water bottle often enough

By Amanda Svachula

The Navy’s version of a Roomba inspects billion-dollar ships for damage

The Navy’s version of a Roomba inspects billion-dollar ships for damage

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Old batteries in a rectangle formation waiting to be recycled.

It’s time to recycle all those dead batteries

By Tamara Palmer

ear wax removed with a q-tip. but you shouldn't do this!

4 reasons to put down the cotton swab and love your earwax

By Lauren J. Young

A black vacuum cleaner set against blue carpet, with its path a slightly darker, cleaner color than the rest of the floor.

The germiest places you might not be cleaning

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It’s time to figure out your real bra size

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Space stations could wage war on hitchhiking bacteria with self-cleaning tech

Space stations could wage war on hitchhiking bacteria with self-cleaning tech

By Tatyana Woodall

A man in a blue plaid shirt, jeans, and white socks using a cordless vacuum to clean a tile kitchen floor near a large window.

A bare minimum guide to spring cleaning

By Alexandra Frost

An old Volkswagen Beetle in a garage with a motorcycle and a lot of clutter.

Forget garage sales. These 9 apps make it easier to sell your old junk.

A brown-and-white dog laying on a blue-green carpet under a wooden table.

How we vanquished the strong pet odors in our new home

By Jose Mendoza, Mary Kearl

Person cleaning the screen of a laptop with a cloth as part of their digital spring cleaning.

A complete guide to digital spring cleaning

Best Vacuums for Stairs

The best vacuums for stairs

By Kaitlyn McInnis

A woman with red lipstick on standing very close to a TV screen that's playing black and white static, as she gently touches the screen with her hand.

How to clean a TV screen

By John Kennedy

The best pool vacuums

The best pool vacuums

By Emma Banks, Jen McCaffery

The best cordless vacuums can help make cleanup fast and easy.

The best cordless vacuums

By Stacey L. Nash