It turns out the cute, harmless-looking rubber ducky floating around in your bathtub may actually be a Trojan horse for ravenous legions of “potentially pathogenic bacteria.” That’s the conclusion of ...

Is your rubber ducky really rubber yucky? Just because rubber ducks and other bath toys seem to take lots of baths doesn't meant that they are clean. The researchers then cleaned the outside of each ...

BERN, Switzerland— Scientists have the dirt on the rubber ducky: Those cute yellow bath-time toys are — as some parents have long suspected — a haven for nasty bugs. Swiss and American researchers ...

January 13 is National Rubber Ducky Day. The colorful toy is a staple in children's bath tubs and is more than a century old. But how did the simple yellow duck become so popular? The earliest ducks ...

They bob around in bathtubs, but they are definitely not clean. A new study has found ugly things lurking inside rubber ducky bath toys. "The dark side of plastic materials in contact with potable ...

S5: There are two things that are central to the rubber ducky as we currently understand it. S7: The duck itself and the bathtub that it floats in. S8: The kind of bath that a rubber ducky can float ...

Wondering where to find the Fortnite tiny rubber ducky from the Splashdown loading screen and complete another 14 Days of Summer challenge? We don't know about you, but hunting around for a tiny ...

In 1992, the fourth annual Rubber Ducky Regatta, a fundraiser for the Pulaski-Saline Unit of the American Cancer Society, launched about 6,000 bathtub toys on the Arkansas River. A dumptruck tipped ...

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January 13 is National Rubber Ducky Day. The colorful toy is a staple in children's bath tubs and is more than a century old. But how did the simple yellow duck become so popular? The earliest ducks ...