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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Out of all of the national rankings the University of Michigan makes each year, a new project ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Analyzing urine and stool to get a picture of health has traditionally been the work of dedicated diagnostic labs. People submit samples and technicians analyze them for a range of factors, from the ...

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 ...