Everybody poops, but only some of that poop fossilizes, turning into coprolites. While ancient droppings may sound gross — after all, who wants to go digging through feces that are centuries or even ...

Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s ...

It may sound a little gross, but your poop could hold the key to saving lives. While many of us have been flushing it away without a second thought, feces are now in demand in the world of medical ...

Microsoft is looking to lower its vast carbon footprint by pumping human waste 5,000 feet below the ground’s surface. The tech giant hopes to offset its massive carbon footprint, only exacerbated by ...

Healthy human stool is emerging as a vital medical resource, treating severe infections resistant to antibiotics. Faecal ...

Whether poop speeds through your gut like a bullet train or takes a more smell-the-roses approach could have more profound implications for your overall health than a first glance would suggest.

Washington Post columnist Philip Bump fact-checked San Francisco’s human feces problem with various interpretations of defecation maps, some suggesting a few streets are actually poop-free, while ...

An estimated 1,650 hikers poop each year on Colorado’s tallest and busiest 14er. And because what those hikers do with their waste can have widespread environmental and human impacts, PACT Outdoors, a ...

In the wee hours of the morning in a lab in Amherst, Massachusetts, geoscience graduate student Rob D’Anjou sat looking over test results, a pot of coffee nearby. He’d been pulling long days to ...