Bath

It was just last year when a study concluded that a warm bath before bed should indeed help you to sleep. Now, a new study suggests that regular hot soaks may also lower the risk of death from cardiovascular disease.

​It's already commonly thought that a warm bath before going to bed helps improve your sleep. A new meta-study has apparently confirmed this to be the case, however, and has even come up with exact figures regarding the best times and temperatures.

Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of Bath are developing a technique that uses satellite radar imaging to monitor the safety of bridges and other large-scale infrastructure.

Washing your dog in the bathtub can certainly be a laborious process. Well, Bissell (yep, the vacuum cleaner company) has developed an alternative. Its portable BarkBath system can be used anywhere, and is kind of like a carpet cleaner for your pooch.

​The bathroom is one of the last bastions of privacy, where we can belt out a tune in the shower, soak in the tub, or primp and preen ourselves without judgement. To help your friends and family make the most of that precious personal time, we’ve rounded up some of the best bathroom gift ideas.

Portland, Oregon-based company The Original Nomad has just launched a collapsable hot tub that's aimed at campers. It folds into a relatively small cube for ease of transport and looks large enough to entertain a few very good friends at once.

Bathing with your significant other is great, although things can get kind of cramped when you try sticking two people in one bathtub. That's why the Yin Yang "couple bath" was created. It lets you and that special someone bathe together without, you know ... bathing together.

Design group Splinter Works' latest piece of furniture, the Vessel, is a sleek-looking bathtub suspended in the air like a hammock.

Researchers at the University of Bath in the UK are working on a self-healing concrete that uses bacteria to seal the cracks that lead to decay.

The Hot Tub Boat allows its passengers to soak while they cruise.

The MagicBath from Italian design firm BluBleu is a specially designed baby bath featuring an air massage system for your little ones derriere.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed an assistive robot that can autonomously perform bed baths to keep bedridden patients clean.