A sliding under-seat toilet design has just been patented for cars. It solves one problem while potentially creating a few new ones. A Chinese EV manufacturer has secured a patent for a hidden in-car ...

The average person spends 416 days of their life in the bathroom — and the latest trend in digital health wants to make sure that time isn’t going down the drain. Over the past year, a wave of ...

Public restrooms might seem like a germ nightmare, but the real risks aren’t always where you think. While toilet seats can carry bacteria, viruses, and even parasite traces, studies show they’re ...

Spaceflight is hard, but crewed spaceflight is a million times harder. With humans onboard, engineers have to account for a long list of biological needs—including going to the bathroom. Designing a ...

Sorry, but we need to talk about Artemis 2's space toilet again. The loo on Artemis 2's Orion capsule has gotten a lot of attention since the moon mission launched on ...

As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts make their way to the moon this weekend, their test flight has gone surprisingly well without any major issues, save for one piece of technology giving the crew some ...

The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission are more than halfway to the moon after launching Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center, but a familiar problem has surfaced. For the second time since ...

The Artemis II mission crew flushed out an issue with their onboard toilet system shortly after launching into space on April 1, NASA said. The astronauts worked with NASA's mission control team in ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Toilet plumbing problems, email glitches and issues phoning home: Astronauts are just like us! Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

The first-ever toilet in deep space barely made it into orbit before NASA astronauts had to roll up their sleeves and make some repairs. There was no plumbing backup, of course — there is no actual ...

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