Washing your hands is one of the easiest ways to stop the spread of germs, right? Well, your office hand dryer might actually be spreading fecal bacteria onto your hands and throughout your building.

We know fecal bacteria shoots into the air when a lidless toilet flushes — a phenomenon known, grossly, as a "toilet plume." But in bathrooms where such plumes gush regularly, where does all that ...

Next time you wash your hands in a public restroom, you may want to think twice about heading towards the hand dryers. A viral video circulating on TikTok reveals what happens if you use a hot-air ...

Public hand dryers, often seen as hygienic, actually blast restroom air filled with bacteria and fecal matter onto freshly washed hands. Studies reveal these dryers spread germs more effectively than ...

"I [fell] on top of the dryer, like it was under me, and I was in a weird, contorted placement and the dryer was still running,” the woman recalled Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

A South Carolina woman is describing the moment she woke up to find her blow dyer burning her hand, which had to be amputated. Watch full story above.Mary Wilson, of James Island, said the last thing ...

A South Carolina woman is recovering from a horrific accident where she burned her hand so badly with a blow dryer that it had to be amputated. Mary Wilson says she is taking a positive outlook on ...

A typically cited figure for the carbon “intensity” of UK electricity generation is 0.2 kilograms of CO 2 per kilowatt-hour. Allowing for around 5 per cent transmission losses, this means that a ...

Want to hear something gross? Well, the news may come from your public restroom. No, it’s not the toilet seats or the countertops where people wash their hands but try looking at the contactless hand ...