You know that sharp odor of chlorine from the swimming pool you can recall from earliest childhood? It turns out it's not just chlorine, but a potent brew of chemicals that form when chlorine meets ...

Planning to spend the summer swimming? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a small request: Don’t pee in the pool. The CDC recently shared a social media post warning against the ...

Planning to spend the summer swimming? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a small request: Don’t pee in the pool. The CDC recently shared a social media post warning against the ...

There are two types of people in this world: people who admit they've peed in a pool and liars. Okay, so maybe not everyone has actually urinated while swimming, but every pool has at least a little ...

If you’ve ever been to a public swimming pool, you’re familiar with the stinging sensation of chlorine hitting your nostrils when you approach the water. Except that’s not just chlorine — it’s also ...

We all know it happens. When you go swimming, you're in a pool of urine. But how much pee is really in the pool? We're getting a better idea of just how much thanks to researchers at University of ...

In a new study, chemist Xing-Fang Li, from the University of Alberta, and colleagues were able to measure the amount of pee found in a pool by developing a test that measures the concentration of the ...

Maybe you'd prefer not to think about it, but people do use a dip in the local swimming pool as an opportunity to relieve themselves. But in the grand scheme of things, how much pee are we talking ...

Approximately 20 gallons. That’s how much human urine courses through your average swimming pool, according to a chemical analysis published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology ...

There are two types of people in this world: people who admit they’ve peed in a pool and liars. Okay, so maybe not everyone has actually urinated while swimming, but every pool has at least a little ...

Forget Paris' Seine River, turns out the Olympic swimming pools might be filled with some major human liquid-by-product. A recent report shed light on whether Olympic swimmers empty their bladders ...