Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists used lasers to show what really happens when you flush the toilet. Images showed a tall plume of tiny drops of toilet ...

It’s a cootie confetti bomb of a study that begs the question: Why aren’t we wearing face masks every time we use the restroom? Thanks (or no thanks) to a group of engineering researchers at Florida ...

Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have confirmed what the germ-phobic among us have long suspected: The flush of a commercial toilet releases a Vesuvius-like cloud of tiny droplets and ...

‘Keeping the lid down when you flush stops a plume of fine toilet water spray as high as a metre being released,’ says ...

You already know that public bathrooms are pretty disgusting—but recent research sheds light on just how germy they can be. For a study published in the journal Physics of Fluids in February, ...

Scientists used lasers to show what really happens when you flush the toilet. Images showed a tall plume of tiny drops of toilet water being blasted into the air. It's not clear whether the plumes ...