The assignment from Nichole Ward’s microbiology professor was simple: Choose a location, open a petri dish for three minutes and observe what grew over the next two days. No one’s sample came back ...

Are hand dryers in public restrooms blowing bacteria back on your freshly washed hands as you're drying them? PIX11 collected samples from a variety of restrooms in the city and, working with a ...

You washed your hands, but did the hundreds of others who went before you clean theirs? Are those spots, or something more sinister? Don’t even want to know, and never bring a black light with you on ...

Remember when there were reports of a TikTok trend warning against using hand dryers in public restrooms on hair, and even your own hands? Well, one company is disputing those claims. Excel Dryer, who ...

Electric hand dryers are eco-friendly — but may hide a dirty secret. In an effort to save the environment, public restrooms have begun offering electric hand dryers in place of paper towels, but a ...

In the pursuit of cleaner, safer public restrooms, hand dryers have long faced a unique challenge: how to effectively kill germs in fast-moving air. Traditional germicidal technologies—like UV lights ...