SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's dirty sidewalks are one of the biggest gripes of residents and cleaning them is among the top priorities of the newly elected mayor. So now the city is launching the ...

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 ...

"Ghost poop" is a bowel movement that seemingly disappears without a trace after you flush the toilet. There’s no sign of it either in the toilet paper that you used to wipe your butt or in the toilet ...

When the poop emoji wanted to move through the world without being detected, it needed a human host. The human host had to have very little brain activity, with little to no spine and who cheated on ...

“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: ...

Although conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is chummy with Donald Trump (takes one to know one), that did not stop the shock jock ...

Swiss researchers are reportedly creating a "doomsday vault" of human feces. Their goal? To freeze and preserve 10,000 stool samples by 2029 in an effort to safeguard humanity's microbial heritage.

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Those looking to climb Mount Everest will now have to carry poop bags on them to bring their waste back down to camp. The tallest mountain in the world is estimated to have around 3 tons of poop ...

Dog poop is more than an eyesore. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each gram of dog feces can carry up to 23 million bacteria, including E. coli, Salmonella, and ...