ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - The University of Michigan has installed a special toilet and urinal in a campus engineering building that take aim at converting human urine into agricultural fertilizers. The ...

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It’s a cootie confetti bomb of a study that begs the question: Why aren’t we wearing face masks every time we use the restroom? Thanks (or no thanks) to a group of engineering researchers at Florida ...

Withings, a company that makes connected medical devices, announced on Tuesday that it is developing a miniaturized platform that can analyze urine at home. The company, which was founded in 2008, is ...

We've heard of off-grid toilets that macerate, compost, incinerate and electro-wrap. We even stumbled on one that "super-composts" just a few weeks ago. We guess we should have expected one that ...

Withings today announced the U-Scan, a miniaturized health lab that attaches to a toilet bowl and collects urine for home urine screening. Withings says that urine screening can provide an immediate ...

Kohler, a company best known for its plumbing fixtures, recently released the Dekoda scanner, a smart camera that attaches to your toilet. Along with a companion app, the Dekoda scanner analyzes urine ...

Your toilet should be smarter. That's the thinking of two scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Joshua Coon and Ian Miller, who believe a “smart toilet,” can become a tool to closely ...

Few think of the toilet as a font of valuable information, outside what you might read while you're sitting on the throne. But a "smart toilet" is being developed that will help track your health by ...

Chelsea Wald is a freelance reporter in The Hague, the Netherlands, and the author of Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet. On Gotland, the largest island in Sweden, fresh ...