When entering public restrooms, it's hard not to dwell on what germs previous users have left behind in the toilet bowl. Imagine, instead, a self-cleaning system that doesn't require a brightly ...

Tilda Swinton is the voice of water in a toilet bowl. Emma Stone plays an earnest extra in a low-budget porno. Paul Dano stars as a sitcom dad having an affair with a fluffy purple alien. Ryan Gosling ...

In a single day, more than 141 billion liters of water is used to flush toilets—and even in places prone to drought, it’s typically clean drinking water. What if you didn’t have to use as much water ...

John Crimaldi is a professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Every time you flush a toilet, it releases plumes of tiny water droplets into ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A survey found that more bacteria is lingering on your reusable water bottles than can usually be found on a toilet seat. The survey, by WaterFilterGuru.com, had scientists swab common ...

An easy-to-apply polymer coating made the toilet bowl on the left more slippery than the untreated one on the right. When entering public restrooms, it’s hard not to dwell on what germs previous users ...