The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been focusing on toilets for some time. The foundation believes toilets are a key to health and economic growth across the developing world. As Bill Gates ...

Sanitation: it’s not the sexiest issue, but it’s a big problem in much of the world. A staggering 2.5 billion people don’t have access to proper sanitation, and open defecation leads to the deaths of ...

Last year, universities from around the world were presented with a challenge — a toilet challenge, that is. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded grants to inventors to design an economical ...

To pass the time while social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, athletes from around the world have been participating in the 10-touch “toilet paper challenge.” Golden Knights forward Alex ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X These aren’t your typical loos. One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into ...

Fly larvae that transforms poop into useful products. A water-free toilet. These are just a few of the innovations coming from the Indian leg of the Gates Foundation’s Toilet Challenge. How do you ...

Among the inventions on display at Delhi's Reinvent the Toilet Fair in March 2014 was a machine that converts human waste into biochar via pyrolysis. (Photo by SuSanA Secretariat/CC BY 2.0) This is ...

NASA on Thursday launched a crowdsourcing campaign offering $20,000 to the person who comes up with the best design for space toilets ahead of the agency’s 2024 flight to the moon. The agency issued ...