Physicians of the Roman empire had a knack for making remedies from an assortment of components from various animals, ...

At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...

Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a ...

NASA is currently reviewing the first round of proposals. NASA is offering a 3 million reward for anyone who can propose a solution to an unusual space challenge: recycling human waste. As part of the ...

A new study shows that organic residues from a Roman-era glass medicinal vial came from human feces.

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 ...

NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge offers $3 million to develop technologies for recycling human waste in space, addressing the challenge of managing astronaut feces, urine, and vomit on the moon and during ...

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 ...

Scientists in Switzerland are cryogenically freezing human feces in a Microbiota Vault, aiming to safeguard microbial diversity for future generations. This initiative addresses the alarming decline ...

Scientists are freezing human poop to avert a disaster in the future. The Microbiota Vault project aims to collect 10,000 poop samples by 2029 in order to preserve microbes that can one day help ...

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 ...

“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: ...