Most of us don't give much thought to sponges. But if you hate doing the dishes (who doesn't), a good sponge will make the task a little less painful. Better yet, using the right sponge can save time ...

People love to debate cleaning questions: Do you need to rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher? Can you use soap on a cast-iron skillet? Yes or no to fabric softeners? And, perhaps the ...

You may cringe each time you wring out your dirty, old kitchen sponge, thinking you should replace it. And often, you then forget. But you really should swap it out for a new one – and probably more ...

They wash your dishes, your car, even your back. Sponges are a ubiquitous tool of the modern world—and have been since the earliest days of mediterranean culture—but how much do you really know about ...

video: Expansion and merging of wet micropores in a cellulose sponge. This material relates to a paper that appeared in Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Jonghyun Ha at Seoul National ...

A new, absorbent material could be of assistance in future oil spill accidents: a chemically modified nanocellulose sponge. The light material absorbs the oil spill, remains floating on the surface ...

As the Deepwater Horizon incident showed us, oil spills can be huge environmental disasters. That said, there are also considerable challenges in dealing with the waste products generated by the ...

video: Water rise within a cellulose (kitchen) sponge, and then within a bread pore coalescence. This material relates to a paper that appeared in Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by ...