Finally, researchers soaked up each urinal’s surrounding floor with paper towels, then weighed them to compare their splashbacks. “We found that when a liquid jet or droplet train impacts a ...

Three-dimensional renderings of urinals. From left to right: Duchamp’s “La Fontaine,” a contemporary commercial model, Cornucopia, and Nautilus. A urinal designed to avoid urine splashback ...

Thousands of gallons of ill-aimed pee could be spared from lavatory floors thanks to a new urinal design, scientists say. Around 1 million liters (264,172 gallons) of urine are spilled onto the ...