VIENNA, Austria -- Recent research suggests small pieces of plastic have made their way into the human gut, but some scientists aren't ready to draw any conclusions. In a Medical University of Vienna ...

PanCAN Patient Services Case Manager Trishana Horton shares information about stool and tips to have a conversation with your ...

A team of scientists in Switzerland is collecting and deep-freezing human poop in what they call a “doomsday” vault. The goal is to protect the invisible microbial world inside us for future ...

If you’re one of the 63 million Americans who went hiking last year, chances are you’ve found yourself needing to go, with no toilet in sight. Aside from personal inconvenience, why is this such a big ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – As the city addresses the homelessness crisis, it’s an aspect of the issue that doesn’t get as much attention: the human feces left behind by those living on the streets.

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 ...

The study centered on the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lamu Island, Kenya. Researchers sound alarm after making ominous ...

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 ...

“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: ...