Finally! A microbiologist settles the debate on whether you need to keep the toilet lid down when you're not on the pot.

A scientist wants to clear the air on how bathroom habits impact overall cleanliness. Microbiologist Tim Call, 32, has exposed how dirty your bathroom is before and after flushing the toilet. Cal, ...

Bathrooms are a breeding ground for bacteria, making it essential to find ways to keep this high-traffic space as clean as possible. While most people agree that toilets harbor germs, there's an ...

It's been said that closing the toilet lid before flushing can prevent the spread of all germs, by keeping any flush-produced mist in the bowl. But a new study refutes that, showing that tiny viral ...

LOS ANGELES - A McDonald's cashier is facing an attempted murder charge after giving birth to a boy while at work and then trying to flush the newborn down a toilet inside the Redwood City, Calif., ...

Researchers note there are no documented cases of the virus spreading this way. Closing the toilet lid when you flush could prevent the spread of the coronavirus. That's according to researchers in ...

Public restrooms aren’t exactly associated with cleanliness. But a team scientists have recently exposed just how dirty they are. As it turns out, public restrooms aren’t just dirty; they’re actually ...

Indian households can significantly cut water usage by mastering their dual-flush toilets. Pressing the smaller button for ...

The amount of heroin a man tried to flush down a gas station toilet was just too much to handle Tuesday night. When a Monroe police officer approached the men’s restroom of the gas station on West ...

A cashier who told police she didn’t know she was pregnant when she gave birth in a McDonald’s restroom last week, made a similar claim three years ago when she gave birth to another child in a ...

Singapore’s environment minister, Lim Swee Say, awarded the country’s first five-star rating to a public restroom at the start of a nationwide “Happy Toilet” campaign to flush out dirty lavatories.