It's an issue that most men have to deal with on a daily basis. Urinals, first invented nearly 200 years ago, still have a notorious flaw – splashback. Now, experts have come up with a design that ...
When a drop of liquid hits a surface at a sufficiently high speed, it splashes -- that much isn't in doubt. But sometimes splashing isn't helpful. Researchers are working on methods of 'splash ...
Scientists in the UK are working to develop new ‘splash avoidance’ techniques that could help to prevent unpleasant and even hazardous situations in bathrooms, hospitals, and kitchens. And, they say ...
Men, get ready to save on laundry and dry cleaning expenses. Science and technology have given us antibiotics, the internet, and space travel but to date have not solved the problem of urinal ...
Physicists in Utah have developed an insert for urinals that prevents pee from splashing back onto trousers. The so-called urine black hole mimics techniques from super-absorbent natural materials.
RESEARCHERS from Oxford have made significant progress towards a world with splash-free urinals. Scientists at the University of Oxford have published a paper on splash-avoidance, which assesses ...
It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we've featured year-end roundups of cool science stories we ...
WATERLOO — When the warm weather comes and your layers of clothes are replaced with sandals and shorts, there is no hiding from “the splash.” The splash that comes when the urinal is a little too ...
Yep, CE here. Mind you, the "seat up or down" wars are still pretty much real here as well and home urinals are still quite rare, but the uptake of them has been somewhat rising a bit, lately. Even so ...
When a drop of liquid hits a surface at a sufficiently high speed, it splashes -- that much isn't in doubt. But sometimes splashing isn't helpful. Researchers are working on methods of 'splash ...