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 ...

Ancient samples of human waste isn't just gross; it actually says a lot about humanity's past. But it might also play a part ...

Aside from lifestyle similarities, there aren't many commonalities between tribal African and South American peoples, unless ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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: ...