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Airliner toilets can be scary things. When they flush, they sound like they'd like to suck you in along with everything else. Frequent fliers can take heart, however, as scientists have created a ...

Your toilet has started to become noisy and you want to know why. The truth is there are a variety of reasons why this could be occurring, so we’ve broken it down into categories to help determine ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Anyone stuck with airplane seats near the restroom knows the agony of hearing frequent flushes inflight. Not to mention the odors that can waft past the door as other ...

An electronics company has developed a smart device that cancels embarrassing toilet noises. Well, Japan is known as the most polite nation on Earth, and that extreme politeness extends to all aspects ...

Step into any public restroom stall in Japan and you’re likely to be enveloped in a soundscape. No, not that kind. It’s the babble of running water, perhaps peppered with cheerful tweets and birdsong, ...

Airline flyers are familiar with how intense an airplane toilet sounds when flushed but thanks to the BYU researchers, the problem will soon be resolved. It took two years, three academic publications ...

Airplane toilets are loud. For some, they are downright terrifying. But chin up, frequent flyers, because a group of physicists have figured out how to make them quieter. After two years of trial and ...

This awkward scenario could be a thing of the past though, thanks to a group of Brigham Young University physicists who figured out how to make airplane toilets quieter. After two years of trial and ...