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 ... Dyson hand dryer in a women ...

He first took the idea to World Dryer ... "Paper towels alone, without hand dryers, are probably in around 90-95 percent of those bathrooms." That means there are well over 25 million bathrooms ...

But it’s not over when you flip off the ... buildings and deposited on hands by hand dryers.” It tested conventional hot-air models with and without filters and determined that the filters ...

She also measured decibel output with and without the presence of a hand in the airstream. She found that the most common dryers she encountered were astonishingly loud under real-world circumstances.

You’ve probably heard or read the reports from researchers at respected universities and major medical schools all over the world. Researchers said hot air hand dryers can blow bacteria like ...

"Next time you dry your hands in a public toilet using an electric hand dryer, you may be spreading bacteria without knowing it ... separate and ongoing debate over the environmental impact ...