What is the right way?
Dishwasher manufacturers and home style maven Martha Stewart agree on some basics for the right way to load a dishwasher: 1 If the washer has a third,…
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The great dishwasher fight
Appliance maker Bosch says more than 40 percent of families argue about the proper way to load a dishwasher. About 60 percent agree about whether to…
The Dish on Washers: Dishwashers save money
Study: Dishwashers save money A lot of people who have automatic dishwashers don’t use them, but they might save money on water and electricity if they…
Future of Braille remains uncertain in the computerized world
In 2018, smartphones may increasingly become the eyes of the blind. After all, smartphones can read text, take voice commands, create text from voice for…
New Year’s Resolutions: Break out into something new
So, everyone resolves to lose weight and stop procrastinating. Why stick with the obvious? Here are some resolutions that will make 2018 a little more…
100 years of insulin treatments save countless lives
The disease diabetes has been identified for thousands of years, but only in the last 100 has there been a truly life-saving treatment: Insulin. Insulin…
Cure for type 1 diabetes? New business aims at trials
A new startup company has raised $114 million to develop a treatment for type 1 diabetes. Semma Therapeutics will use the new funding to begin human…
Cinnamon and blood sugar
Researchers are studying the spice cinnamon to see if it helps control blood sugar, as folk treatments suggest. A review of 11 trials of cinnamon…
Food cravings
Dieters who are serious about losing weight should do one thing first: Clean out the fridge. Writing in the journal Obesity, researchers from Louisiana…
Carrots are healthy, peeled or unpeeled
Peeling a carrot does not remove the majority of vitamins, according to the Tufts University Nutrition Letter. The carrot skin contains concentrated…