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 ...

But when Ward returned to class with a dish that she had put in an enclosed Dyson hand dryer in a women’s restroom, the colonies of fungi and bacteria that had grown in it outstripped anything ...

“This here, is what grew in a petri dish after just a few days,” Nichole wrote. “I stuck the open plate in an enclosed hand dryer of a public bathroom for a total of 3 minutes. Yes 3 only.” ...

Behold some of the bacteria that grew when an 8-year-old boy who had been playing outside pressed his hand onto a large Petri dish. The photo received lots of buzz after his mom posted it on ...

After testing each hand dryer, the Petri dishes were placed in an incubator to allow the bacteria to grow in a controlled environment. “Trigger warning around 50 seconds,” @the_lab_life1 ...

The hand dryer Petri dish showed different types of bacteria and fungus had grown, forming yellow spots, whereas the dish that was waved through the air was completely clear.

Feb. 5, 2013— -- In this season of the flu and other bugs like the norovirus, people are constantly told that the best and first lines of defense are hand sanitizers and soaps to get rid of ...

After two days, a whole mess of bacteria and fungi erupted on the dish, and since then, the plate’s photo has been shared over 500,000 times and has accumulated more than 143,000 likes.