How do you connect to the internet while barreling through the sky at 500 miles per hour? How can you brew hot food and drinks at high altitude? And most important of all, how does a toilet work at 40 ...

When you gotta go, you gotta go–even at 30,000 feet. The alarming noise ensues when you press the “flush” button in an airplane toilet and the bowl’s contents are magically sucked away into oblivion.

Airplanes are marvels of engineering, but have you ever wondered about the science behind their toilets? Unlike the ones we're used to on the ground, airplane toilets are specially designed for the ...

Air India has in recent months experienced recurrent disruptions of flights on its international routes due to the overflow of lavatories. The problem has attracted a lot of concern, with many raising ...

Every time you flush a toilet, it releases plumes of tiny water droplets into the air around you. These droplets, called aerosol plumes, can spread pathogens from human waste and expose people in ...

Every time you flush a toilet, it releases plumes of tiny water droplets into the air around you. These droplets, called aerosol plumes, can spread pathogens from human waste and expose people in ...

John Crimaldi is a professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Every time you flush a toilet, it releases plumes of tiny water droplets into ...