Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have just returned from New Dehli, India, where they unveiled a new solar-powered toilet at the “Reinvent the Toilet Fair,” an event held last week ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The City of Portland unveiled the first in a line of new solar-powered public toilets that will be popping up throughout the city Monday and it's now open for public use. The first ...

A revolutionary toilet fueled by the sun that is being developed to help some of the 2.5 billion people around the world lacking safe and sustainable sanitation would be unveiled in India this month ...

A solar-powered toilet that turns urine and feces into hydrogen and electricity has won a $100,000 first prize in the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Michael Hoffmann's solar-powered toilet meets all requirements to make it usable in the Third World. It needs no running water, electricity or septic system. It doesn't discharge pollutants and costs ...

Discovered: A record-breaking galaxy cluster; how squids change hue; the way our brains deal with waste; engineering better toilets. Cerebral refuse. Even the brain has to deal with waste matter, and ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Bill Gates is betting the toilet of the future for the developing world will be solar powered. The world's leading private philanthropist handed a $100,000 prize to the California ...

You might take that sound for granted. I know I do. That's because most of us hear it all the time, at least in this country. Toilets are everywhere here in the U.S. But a lot of people around the ...

The flush toilet is sanitary, convenient -- and needs lots of water. The problem is, that design only works if you have a functioning sewage system and access to a steady water supply. Those ...