Schlitt made the fateful decision to scuttle the vessel and ordered everyone to abandon ship. Three sailors drowned while ...

A smart toilet design introduced in rural Cambodia was supposed to change lives—keeping families safe and protecting the ...

Of all the things we knowingly or unwittingly take for granted, having a safe and reliable sanitation system is probably not one of them. Yet according to the World Health Organization, some 3.4 ...

Art collectors have a chance Tuesday to buy one of the world’s most lucrative latrines: a solid gold, fully functional toilet ...

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

If you own your home, or even if you rent, chances are high that you’ll need to perform some basic toilet repair at some ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at the auction.

Public toilets are a "microbial soup" and there are things you should be doing to protect yourself — including not taking out ...

We've heard of off-grid toilets that macerate, compost, incinerate and electro-wrap. We even stumbled on one that ...

In a world where convenience often trumps common sense, the toilet has somehow become the unsuspecting hero—or rather, victim—of our trashy tendencies. Despite plumbing systems being explicitly ...

Discover 10 of the most unusual bathroom habits found in the animal kingdom - from the weird and wacky to the gross and ...