Every time you flush a toilet, it releases plumes of tiny water droplets into the air around you. These droplets, called aerosol plumes, can spread pathogens from human waste and expose people in ...

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Though the experiments were conducted with toilets empty of all but clean water, Crimaldi strongly suspects that adding toilet paper and human waste only injects more chaos and energy into a flush. A ...

Just a few short years ago, Kohler brought us one step closer to the Jetsons-style house of the future by introducing the touchless faucet, and now they’re back with something even better — a ...

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