Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue were called to reports of a fire within the toilet block of Wheatley Nursery School yesterday. Crews arrived to find the hand dryer fire had already been put out by ...

The use of high-speed hand dryers can transfer germs to a person's clothing and lead to an increase in spreading those contaminants to other surfaces, according to the pilot study published ...

Those air-blown hand dryers in public restrooms may spread far more germs than conventional paper towels, a new study suggests. British researchers placed a harmless type of bacteria on the hands ...

Hand dryers are ubiquitous in public restrooms, but according to research recently published in the Canadian journal Paediatrics & Child Health, the noise they make may be harmful to children's ears.

The restroom at my office has electric hand dryers with little plaques that read, “Thanks for helping us save trees.” Is my company really doing the planet a favor by ditching paper towels?

Nora Keegan, a 13-year-old from Canada, had a question: Do hand dryers hurt children's hears? She decided to investigate, and ended up getting her study published in the journal Paediatrics ...

In the experiment she took an agar plate, which is a thin layer of nutrient gel in a Petri dish, and held it underneath a generic hand dryer in a public bathroom to see what bacteria would grow.

The use of high-speed hand dryers can transfer germs to a person's clothing and lead to an increase in spreading those contaminants to other surfaces, according to the pilot study published ...