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 ...

Humans might like to think we've cornered the market on cleanliness, but a new study shows we're not as special as we thought, especially when it comes to personal hygiene. Researchers observing two ...

Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a 1,900-year-old Roman vial that could provide the first concrete evidence of human poop ...

You've heard of the Internet of Shit, but this is literally the case: an AI-powered poop analysis app's database of ...

Scientists are deep-freezing human poop in a "doomsday" vault in Switzerland that already contains more than 1,000 fecal samples, and the researchers now say they want to amass 10,000 samples by 2029.

In the late 1950s, archaeologists discovered a cave in the Rio Zape Valley of Mexico. There were ancient human remains in the cave dated to between 660 and 1430 A.D., many of which belonged to ...

A successful bowel movement has three requirements, according to Harvard physician Dr. Trisha Pasricha.