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 ...

How can you brew hot food and drinks at high altitude? And most important of all, how does a toilet work at 40,000 feet? We often think about how planes work – how they get into the air, and stay ...

We often think about how planes work – how they get into the air, and stay there safely. What we think about less are the everyday functions taking place on onboard. Air circulation, heating food and ...

When you gotta go, you gotta go–even at 30,000 feet. CREDIT: Stuart Dee via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries ...

The flush handle is pressed, lifting the flapper, setting in motion about 10 seconds of flushing genius. The lifted flapper ...

To mark World Toilet Day on Sunday, current space station inhabitant Andreas Mogensen has answered one of the most common questions that astronauts get asked: “How do you use the bathroom in space?” ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The four Inspiration4 astronauts launching SpaceX's first-ever all-civilian spaceflight this week will have arguably the best bathroom view in human history. That's because the ...