When Consumer Reports tests washers, we do a lot more than wash laundry. Gentleness tests? Check. Vibration? Check. Water and energy use? Double check. Cycle times are recorded, capacities are ...

A tumble dryer that is claimed to dry clothes twice as fast has been developed in the US. The machine uses high-frequency sound waves instead of heat to dry laundry. As well as speeding up the drying ...

Forget heat—drying laundry is about cranking up the volume. At least, that’s how it goes in a lab at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where researchers have built an ultrasonic clothes dryer that uses ...