For millennia we've had written records of ancient doctors prescribing medicine with poop in it, but until very recently, we've never had the proof.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stool transplants are cutting-edge experimental procedures, but using poop as medicine is hardly a modern idea. Ancient Romans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark-brown flakes discovered inside a 1,900-year-old Roman glass vial are the first direct evidence for the use of human feces for ...

Here we are, collectively, as a species, patting ourselves on the back for coming up with a solution to a variety of ailments. A solution that is simultaneously brilliant and laughably stupid: poop ...

When some ancient Romans were feeling a little under the weather, they were treated with human feces. While this practice was mentioned in ancient Greco-Roman medical texts by figures such as Pliny ...

Microsoft announced a deal on Thursday to purchase 4.9 million metric tons of organic waste and pump it 5,000 feet underground as part of its sustainability drive. The organic waste consists of human ...

April 9 (UPI) --NASA is offering $3 million to anyone who proposes technology to solve an unusual problem: recycling feces and other human waste in space. The space agency's LunaRecycle Challenge ...

And, from a dog’s point of view, human feces appears to be tasty and surprisingly nutritious. Given its nutritional value and accessibility, it is certainly reasonable to think that in some places, ...

“Poop is central to the story of how dogs came into our lives," write Duke University dog researchers Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods in their wonderful new book, Survival of the Friendliest: ...