With this latest heatwave around Puget Sound, KIRO 7’s Gary Horcher showed how to build a simple swamp cooler at home for ...

A homeowner was left baffled after discovering a 'strange' plastic tube filled with orangish liquid in their living room.

The water trickled, and the lights blinked on. In a new study, researchers in Singapore describe a way to turn falling water into electricity using nothing more than droplets, a narrow plastic ...

A feeding tube provides nutrition when you can't eat or drink normally. Learn about its types and what it's like to live with one.

In nasogastric (NG) intubation, a thin tube is placed through your nose into your stomach. Learn why this procedure is used and what it involves.

Colgate-Palmolive must face a lawsuit alleging it misleads consumers by claiming its plastic toothpaste tubes are recyclable even though most U.S. recycling facilities do not accept them, a U.S ...

A team of researchers has developed a portable and automatic laboratory that can monitor soil chemistry in real time—and without expensive components. The aim is to give us easier access to ...

These tubes are primarily made out of high-density polyethylene, or HDPE, the same kind of widely recycled plastic often used to make milk jugs or laundry detergent containers.

Thousands of plastic tubes and bottle tops are washing up on the Cornish coastline near Falmouth. The spray bottle tops have been found along Helford River and on beaches in Falmouth and Maenporth ...