In Switzerland, a bold initiative is underway: freezing human feces to preserve global biodiversity. However, this isn't just about safeguarding nature's diversity of plants and animals — human gut ...

But at one point, this was poo that Poyet and her colleagues, including her partner Mathieu Groussin, had collected as part ...

In the fall of 2023, NIST’s scientists in Charleston, South Carolina, received a special shipment of containers packed with baggies full of frozen human feces. Teams of scientists there and at an ...

The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoffs that ultimately find their way into rivers and lakes is a major public health hazard. As a result, it is imperative that water ...

“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: ...