Spaceflight is hard, but crewed spaceflight is a million times harder. With humans onboard, engineers have to account for a long list of biological needs—including going to the bathroom. Designing a ...

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The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission are more than halfway to the moon after launching Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center, but a familiar problem has surfaced. For the second time since ...

The Artemis II mission crew flushed out an issue with their onboard toilet system shortly after launching into space on April 1, NASA said. The astronauts worked with NASA's mission control team in ...

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While in orbit around Earth, the Artemis II crew called down to the mission team on the ground to report a problem with their toilet. They noticed a blinking fault light that NASA’s associate ...

The Universal Waste Management System aboard the Orion capsule is an innovation in deep space toiletry (it seems to be fixed now). By Katrina Miller While in orbit around Earth, the Artemis II crew ...

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Scrolling on your phone while sitting on the toilet might be doing more harm than you think. A new study found that people who use smartphones during bathroom visits had a 46% higher risk of ...

Do you remember the last time you had to queue for a toilet? If several examples spring to mind, the chances are you were standing in the women’s line. Whether at theatres, airports, shopping centres ...

A toilet maker and seasoning giant are Japan's unlikely winners in the AI boom. Toto, famous for its bidets, has drawn investor attention because it makes key components for memory chips. Food giant ...

We’ve covered a fair number of toilet-related product categories here at Consumer Reports, because let’s be real: Quite a bit goes into making toilet-sitting a more comfortable experience. From the ...