From how to wash pillows to when to buy new ones to the benefits of zipped pillow covers, keeping your pillows clean is good for your health.

Part of living with pets is dealing with the smells they emit. Here's how to do it.

Moving allows the opportunity to purge stuff and declutter spaces. Here are five tips to purge, pack and move while reducing the stress of it all.

Don't just move dust around with a feather duster, but actually whisk it away with these 7 tips.

Using a kitchen towel for many uses can spread E. coli and get your family sick.

Non-chemical ways to make your sink and tub smell fresh.

Nothing gets the holidays off to a bad start like broken ornaments and tangled lights. Avoid the hassle and store them right.

Bees that ate the immune-boosting chemicals showed activation in genes known to help them fight parasites and break down pesticides.

Chris Burley and Ei Ei Khin have an ambitious goal: Grow 1 million wildflowers to help threatened honeybee populations.

A photographer has caught fascinating slow-motion footage of honeybees flying, working and even stinging.

The apiarian artery is the buzziest infrastructure project in Scandinavia.

Waste-free living has led Lauren Singer to an unexpected new career and a better life.

American chemists are searching for new and resourceful ways to extract uranium from deposit-rich oceans in order to reduce the expensive mining process's cost.

Science has finally discovered the answer to the centuries-old question of how to turn something into gold.

The Caterpillar 797 is a 50-foot-tall dump truck widely used in the mining industry. Watch what happens when it faces off against a stationary Land Cruiser.

Gone but not forgotten, these once-bustling mining outposts offer visitors a look at Old West ghost towns, from kitschy to untouched.

Worth more than $1 million, this gemstone is distinguished for its rich color palette and light-refracting qualities that defy description.

How do you clean up a river? The answer is twofold: treatment and dilution.

Jaguars used to roam all over the Southwest but now are an extreme rarity. And this unique cat is already threatened by the mining industry.

Energy prices are going to get more expensive for all of us, but low-income households shouldn't have to shoulder the burden. Here's how we can help them.

New research finds that exposure to mildly cooler temps may be the key to shedding pounds.

Who said old houses can't learn new energy-saving tricks?

It would take an extraordinary force of nature to blow one of these straw-stuffed brick abodes down.

Our houses are way more efficient than they used to be, but we're using more energy per capita than we ever have.

A new online investing platform will fund energy-efficiency improvements for churches and nonprofits in poor neighborhoods.

We can't just build better; we have to change the way we live.

Sandwich filling, side dish, and main dish recipes for the slow cooker that will keep you and your home cool this summer.

From coffee grounds to flushable wipes, avoid these no-nos when rinsing and flushing.

Farming runoff turns the sea floor into a wet desert and forces species onward or upward.

Neolithic humans in the Wadi Faynan region of southern Jordan may have polluted the river while first learning how to smelt.

Paddlers Paul Twedt and Michael Anderson started their Three Rivers Project to clean up Minnesota's three largest rivers.

If it isn't covered in toxic foam, Bellandur Lake in Bangalore is catching fire. The residents have complained

The Ocean Cleanup is ready to launch plastic-eating System 001 to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

This infographic breaks down how plastic pollution is killing marine life and what you can do to prevent it.

It took a surprising amount of engineering magic to build a coffee cup suitable for those in zero gravity.

After 467 days in orbit and a ticker-tape parade, a special litte astronaut will live out its days at the National Air and Space Museum.

NASA's space shuttles are gearing up to make their final voyages — this time flying piggyback a special Boeing 747 jet on the way to museum retirement homes.

Hundreds of eager spectators lined Manhattan's West Side Pier 84 on June 6, as the space shuttle Enterprise completed the final leg of its journey to the Intrep

Four astronauts are spending 12 days underwater to prepare new methods for working in outer space. And they're Tweeting about it.

The space shuttle Endeavour will begin a three-day trip across the United States on Sept. 19, and you can catch some of that journey —the final piggyback flig

The space shuttle Endeavour takes to the skies above California for its last-ever flight today, Sept. 21, giving observers from Sacramento to Los Angeles a one

Amidst much fanfare, the new museum display featuring retired space shuttle Endeavour opened to the media and invited guests here on Oct. 30.

The Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003 killed all 7 of its crew members, but a box of roundworms managed to survive the shuttle's disintegration.

NASA lost power on Sunday in California, delaying the launch of the IRIS sun observatory by one day.

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has been decommissioned after 10 years of data collecting on other galaxies and black holes.

Here's a handy cheat sheet to help you keep the spacecraft straight.

Weather permitting, the cargo run will lift off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 3:25 p.m. EDT.

Summer solstice, the unofficial first day of summer, is the day with the most hours of daylight.

Breakthrough technology that separates the heat of sunlight from the light will help to improve solar cell efficiency.

The annual Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee is the first to install a permanent solar installation to reduce its environmental footprint.