You might take that sound for granted. I know I do. That's because most of us hear it all the time, at least in this country. Toilets are everywhere here in the U.S. But a lot of people around the ...

A solar-powered toilet that turns urine and feces into hydrogen and electricity has won a $100,000 first prize in the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

A revolutionary toilet fueled by the sun that is being developed to help some of the 2.5 billion people around the world lacking safe and sustainable sanitation would be unveiled in India this month ...

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of using an outhouse, then you’re undoubtedly familiar with its rancid, pit of fecal despair. I clearly remember the outhouse behind my grandparents’ European farm, ...

Discovered: A record-breaking galaxy cluster; how squids change hue; the way our brains deal with waste; engineering better toilets. Cerebral refuse. Even the brain has to deal with waste matter, and ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Bill Gates is betting the toilet of the future for the developing world will be solar powered. The world's leading private philanthropist handed a $100,000 prize to the California ...