QOTD: Can You Hit ’em Where They Ain’t? (Feeling Flush Edition, Pt. 3)

This week is the third and final installment of our QOTD series about cornering the used car market and finding the most bang for the buck. We’re going all out for this finale, and giving you plenty of money to shop. And when we say plenty of money, we’re talking more than triple the lowest budget […]

Hot flush cure? Menopause symptom could be banished thanks to THIS

GETTY The curse of hot flushes can be banished in just three days The breakthrough has led to hope the therapy could eventually provide an alternative to expensive and dangerous Hormone Replacement Therapy for women of a certain age. Professor Waljit Dhillo, from the Department of Medicine at Imperial College, London, said: “We already knew […]

Hot flush cure? Menopause symptom could be banished thanks to THIS

THE curse of hot flushes can be banished in just three days thanks to a new generation of “game-changing” drugs, researchers claim. In tests the treatment reduced the severity of the common complaint in menopausal women by almost 75 per cent while “significantly improving” sleep and concentration, British scientists say.

‘Alexa, ask Kohler to flush my toilet’: Voice control comes to the bathroom

Kohler thinks its customers will soon ask their virtual assistants to fill up bathtubs, flush toilets, and get showers ready, thanks to a fleet of internet-connected hardware it will be showing off at the Consumer Electronics Show next week. The venerable plumbing fixture company today unveiled Kohler Konnect, a cloud service that can provide a […]

MAPPED: You CAN’T flush toilet paper down the loo in THESE 10 European countries

Most countries in the Western world are blessed with impeccable sewage systems, and much of the time it’s fine to flush our loo roll without a second thought. However, not every country is lucky enough to have a system that can cope with toilet paper, even in Europe. In some countries, the standard method of […]

Diarrhea-causing Salmonella can be weaponized to flush out cancer

Enlarge / Salmonella (credit: CDC) A notorious germ best known for getting people rushing to the bathroom may one day have cancer patients headed to clinics for a new treatment instead. With some genetic tweaking, Salmonella typhimurium transformed from a germ that causes mayhem in people’s intestines to one that can infiltrate deep into the […]