Just like the great debate over which way the toilet paper roll goes, there is a similar spat over flushing: lid open or closed? Scientists have weighed in with their own woeful conclusion ...

"Once you see these videos, you're never going to think about a toilet flush the same way again.” Until now, no one understood what the airborne particles above flushed toilets looked like and ...

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 ...

In 2022, physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado, Boulder, managed to visualize toilet plumes of tiny airborne particles ejected from toilets during a flush using a combination of ...

“But once you see these videos, you’re never going to think about a toilet flush the same way again.” During the experiment, airborne particles ejected from the toilet traveled at speeds of ...

A toilet can take many forms. The bowl and tank are usually separated in the traditional gravity-flush toilet. This simplifies installation because each section weighs less than the entire toilet ...

What goes in the toilet, and what goes in the trash ... Municipalities have long lists of things people commonly flush but shouldn’t, including facial tissues, tampons, dental floss and indeed ...

And if you've ever wondered if you'll get sucked into the toilet when you press flush, you're not alone, but it's totally safe, so there's nothing to worry about. "There isn't any danger of ...