Using only one cup of water per load, U.K.-based Xeros' new type of washing machine will instead rely on reusable nylon beads to trap dirt and stains.

Along with partners GreenEarth Cleaning, Xeros, which has been testing the machine for three years, will sell the machines in North America, at first mostly to commercial dry cleaners and Laundromats, LiveScience reported.

Using only one cup of water per load, U.K.-based Xeros' new type of washing machine will instead rely on reusable nylon beads to trap dirt and stains.

Along with partners GreenEarth Cleaning, Xeros, which has been testing the machine for three years, will sell the machines in North America, at first mostly to commercial dry cleaners and Laundromats, LiveScience reported.

British scientists are using pictures of penguin poop from high-powered satellites to locate emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica.

The scientists track the penguin's waste because the penguins themselves are hard to distinguish on the sea ice, as their coloring blends into the shadows. Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) came up with the poop-spotting method, as the waste shows up easily in the pictures from space, staining the ice a reddish-brown, according to a statement from the BAS.

A lawmaker and two businessmen in Ukraine have been arrested for trying to sell to undercover security agents a radioactive material that can be used in making a dirty bomb.

The suspects tried to peddle the substance as plutonium-239, a highly radioactive material that can be used to build nuclear weapons, and demanded $10 million, Marina Ostapenko, a spokeswoman for the security service, told Themoscowtimes.com Tuesday.

A German woman divorced her husband after she became fed up with his constant cleaning.

German media says the wife made it through 15 years of marriage with her husband's penchant for rearranging furniture, doing household chores and cleaning up, Reuters reported.