Macy Meyer is a North Carolina native who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in English and a second BA in Journalism. Macy is a Writer on the CNET How-To team, covering a variety of topics ...

Deep cleaning your microwave often falls low on the list of household cleaning priorities—unless, of course, you’ve just faced a tomato soup explosion or a butter-softening mishap. It’s one ...

Consider the environment within the average in-sink garbage disposal: It’s cool, dark, and moist, and there’s a near constant influx of food that gets shredded and scattered about. No wonder ...

Recent technological advancements in cleanroom equipment are helping organizations enhance the performance of their facilities, with greater efficiency and improved contamination control.

We don’t always have the answers, but we have some people on speed dial who do — which is why we present to you our series FYI where we have experts explain if lip balm is actually bad, how ...

From milk spills and cake crumbs to forgotten fruit at the bottom of the crisper drawer, fridges can soon start to look messy and smell funny. But with a little care and attention, the hardest working ...

Is your home looking dingier than normal these days? It could be time to clean your outside windows. While the process requires more time and effort than cleaning your inside windows, that doesn't ...

A woman named Estela García sits alone in an interrogation cell and begins talking to the police she assumes are listening in from another room. She’s 40 years old, born to a single mother in ...

During the hottest days of the year, it’s likely that you rely heavily on an air conditioning unit, be it targeting your room from a windowsill or cooling off the whole-home, without considering ...

In “Clean,” a domestic worker for a wealthy family tells her side of a tragic story. By Laura van den Berg Laura van den Berg is the author of six works of fiction, most recently “State of ...

After a few months of use, oils, dust, drink drips, and food crumbs can build up in even the keyboards of our best laptops. No one is immune to this, not even tech experts like us. But there are ...