People have been enjoying jasmine tea for many centuries. Both tea and jasmine were cultivated in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and people may have drunk jasmine tea even before that time.

Sometimes, during your weekly home reset, the easy way out is not always the smartest route. That includes washing all of your towels with the rest of your laundry. Believe it or not, washing and ...

Regular ScienceAlert readers will likely know how pervasive microplastics are – getting into human tissue, ancient rock, and bottled water – but it may come as a shock to discover just how many of ...

Owning only one or two towels is bad behavior. Even if they are, indeed, the best bath towels ever or one of these do-everything waffle towels. Buy a damn new towel set. If your main criteria for ...

From the Target brand that brought you the “best sheets known to man” — a find that broke the HuffPost internet — is another super-soft winner: Bath towels. Best of all, they’re shockingly affordable, ...

Drinking tea from plastic-containing tea bags could expose you to billions of nano- and microplastics with every sip, putting your health at risk. Many tea bags contain small amounts of tiny ...

You might think of tea as a comforting, soothing ritual. But, scientists at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have made a startling discovery — infusing tea through commercial tea bags might be ...

A UAB research has characterised in detail how polymer-based commercial tea bags release millions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. The study shows for the first time the capacity of ...

The study shows that, when brewing tea, polypropylene releases approximately 1.2 billion particles per milliliter, with an average size of 136.7 nanometers; cellulose releases about 135 million ...

My friend Nicky Haslam publishes his infamous “Common List” tea towel annually, one of which I hope is stuffed in your stocking, but my barometer of what I consider common at Christmas is ...