According to the American Cleaning Institute, the average adult spends about six hours each week cleaning. But it’s safe to ...

Heading into a public bathroom is sometimes like a game of Russian Roulette. You know at least one stall will be nasty, but you’re hopeful it isn’t your turn to walk in and find it. Whether you decide ...

A furious woman took to Reddit to vent after a very awkward, and frankly explosive showdown with her ex-husband over something as basic as... a bathroom. She didn’t let a desperate 4-year-old boy use ...

He was a bad “roll” model. A woman on TikTok shocked and revulsed online viewers after revealing that her ex-boyfriend didn’t use toilet paper — which ultimately led to her dumping him. Alexandra ...

While it’s not a perfect precaution, it makes a real difference. A 2020 study sampled aerosols after flushing with the lid up and down and found that doing it lid-down slashed the bacteria-containing ...

Have you heard that startling claim that intravenous drug users, after using a needle to inject themselves, will often stick the needle into a toilet paper roll to clean off the blood and skin before ...

Is something about to explode? Researchers from the University of Colorado showed how flushing a toilet can generate a volcano or geyser like plume of particles, including ones that can hang in the ...

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A new study suggests that bringing your smartphone into the bathroom could raise your risk of hemorrhoids by nearly 50%. Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston found ...

Scrolling on your smartphone while on the toilet may be doing more than passing the time. A new study has found it could raise your risk of hemorrhoids by nearly 50%, thanks to the extra minutes spent ...

When I graduated with my very expensive journalism degree six years ago, I never imagined I would eventually use it to write about people using a toilet. But on a recent balmy afternoon in San ...

Jocelyn Solis-Moreira is a freelance health and science journalist based in New York. There’s nothing like shutting the bathroom door, maybe even locking it and hiding away from one’s family, even ...