Rosie the robot maid from the Jetsons isn't far behind.

From cleaning your tub with fruit to organizing towels, try these quick tricks for the loo.

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.

These tips will help you save money, time and effort while you get your house sparkly clean.

Researchers found that rooms exposed to sunlight kept the germ population in check better than rooms that received no sunlight at all.

Researchers make headway in fight against devastating disorder by breeding bees with the ability to seek out and remove varroa mites.

Police are looking for suspects in the apian assault.

Australian scientists are attaching sensors to bees to track their movements and study colony collapse disorder.

Concern over dwindling pollinator populations trumps worries of apiarian disturbances.

Mushroom extracts have been shown to reduce the presence of bee-killing viruses.

The ENOUGH project points out at least one commonality between Mac and PC -- they both use conflict minerals.

Mark Ruffalo, actor and environmental activist whose family lives in an area of upstate New York directly where "fracking" is a common practice, explains the da

Some see the EPA's regulation of mining in the region as federal overreach. Politicians are running against the agency in November's election.

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Environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr. is fighting with community activists to save West Virginia's Coal River Mountain from the hands of major coal corporations t

Fracking fluid, the liquid waste left over from the controversial mining technique, wreaks havoc on a plot of land in a test by the U.S. Forest Service.

You might remember the former U.S. senator from Idaho as the anti-gay politician who was arrested for lewd conduct in an airport bathroom. He's back in Washingt

A crowd of farmers, environmentalists and community members gather at a May Day rally in Sydney to call for tougher mining restrictions to protect sensitive lan

Mining the plentiful resources of the moon and near-Earth asteroids could alter the course of human history, adding trillions of dollars to the world economy an

Private groups are shaping business plans to tap into the resource-rich environs of outer space. Early celestial targets with commercial cross hairs on them are

No U.S. president has waxed as poetically about mining the moon the way John F. Kennedy did about landing on it.

Chessboard-like grid patterns that cover sand dunes in China are explained as attempts at mining nickel in the deserts.

Deep Space Industries Inc. announced that it plans to harvest metals and water from asteroids within a decade.

The new company, Deep Space Industries, Inc., announced on Jan. 22 that it plans to mine asteroids for metals, water and other resources.

The 150-foot-wide asteroid 2012 DA14 may harbor $65 billion of recoverable water and $130 billion in metals.

Researchers stumble upon a method that could replace toxic cyanide with plain old cornstarch.

Coal mines are destroying the life that its miners have come to know through pollution and job loss.

Basketball, mini-golf, a Ferris wheel, an underground lake and a spa are just some of the attractions found in this majestic 13th-century Romanian salt mine.

Mountaintop removal mining is one of the most destructive forms of resource extraction, and it's taking its toll.

An eye-catching community sauna is a symbol of rebirth for the arctic mining town of Kiruna, which is being forced to move 2 miles to the east.

If you love the idea of long-lasting LED bulbs but not the price, this one-day Amazon Gold Box Deal may put these energy savers in your price range.

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The era of 900-watt-and-higher vacuum cleaners comes to an end in the European Union due to new efficiency standards.

Advanced refrigeration system, nearly a mile long, is meant to keep contaminated water from the damaged nuclear plant from escaping into the sea.

The color looks radioactive, but activists promise it is nontoxic and harmless to marine life.

"Ain't No Fish" is a stop-motion animated short film that uses a 1940s show tune to highlight ocean pollution.

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

A research team working with an enzyme that eats plastic accidentally engineer it to make it better at breaking down PET.

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.

Benôit 'Ben' Lecomte hopes his attempt to swim across the Pacific will bring awareness to the plastic pollution creating 'an ocean in peril.'

The disease is in the news again, but this time, campylobacter jejuni is linked to puppies. We answer several questions.

Shuttle Endeavour touched down safely at the Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday morning, completing its final mission to space.

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

Six months after leaning they were or were not going to be getting one of NASA's retired space shuttles for display, museums in Los Angeles, Houston and New Yor

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Launching of the Dragon capsule will mark a significant step forward in the partnership between NASA and the private sector.

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.

The first 'A' in NASA's acronym name — Aeronautics — will play a leading role in the final flights of its recently retired shuttle program. Space agency jet

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.