Researchers at Duke University have uncovered a basic but surprising fact: A kitchen sponge is a better incubator for diverse bacterial communities than a laboratory petri dish. But it's not just the ...

Air pockets in a sponge mimic healthy soil, which has various nooks and crannies to host microbial communities. Michael Bihlmayer / EyeEm via Getty Images Scientists have discovered a common household ...

Sponges. Is there anything they can’t do? For millennia, humans have used dried natural sponges to clean up, to paint, and as vessels for drinking; we’ve even used them as contraceptive devices.

Kitchen sponges are considered a potential, yet largely understudied, source of microplastics in households. A study in Environmental Advances investigated how many microplastic particles are released ...