Do you get grossed out by public restrooms? If you’ve seen Nichole Ward’s viral hand dryer experiment online, you may be even more disgusted than than usual, but a closer look suggests your fears are ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS – The next time you’re in a public restroom you may want to skip using those hand dryers. Researchers placed Petri dishes under hand dryers for 30 seconds and found the dishes grew over ...

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 ...

If you're a germaphobe, this viral Facebook post might make you a little squeamish. The post, now shared more than 578,000 times, shows a petri dish swarming with colonies of fungi and bacteria ...

"Comparison of different hand-drying methods: the potential for airborne microbe dispersal and contamination"- The Journal of Hospital Infection "The Hygienic Efficacy of Different Hand-Drying Methods ...

A viral Facebook post from woman in Carlsbad (San Diego County) has a lot of people vowing to never use bathroom hand dryers again. Nichole Ward, a microbiology student, claims that she placed a petri ...

You’re gonna want to air dry your hands from now on. A recent science experiment in a microbiology class led to the revolting revelation that bathroom hand dryers are essentially warming our hands in ...