To make a vinegar and soap fruit fly trap, put a few ounces of apple cider vinegar mixed with a few drops of dish soap in a small dish and cover with plastic wrap. Poke holes in the wrap so the fruit ...

Fill a small bowl or jar with a cup of apple cider vinegar and a few squirts of dish soap.

Fruit flies are never a welcome addition to the kitchen. Though they're most prominent during the hottest months, their irritating presence often persists well into the late summer and early autumn, ...

Fruit flies can be a perennial problem. If you've got clouds of the little critters collecting on every piece of ripe fruit on the counter, you might hope that the cooling temperatures will finally ...

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Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel prizes.

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