As well as having to be cleaned, their soap, hand-towels and toilet paper have to be replenished regularly. The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS has now designed a highly efficient ...

Air dryers aren’t perfect, but they’re hardly viral bombs of destruction either. Whatever your preference—dryer or towel—the best weapon against germs, it turns out, is hand soap.

If we are lucky, we find the most treasured import: the saboun (soap), wrapped in waxy white paper ... a rough white cotton washcloth and move the towel across every limb, every birthmark, every ...