A group of young students became bonafide biomedical scientists before they even started high school. Through a partnership with a nearby university, the middle schoolers collected and analyzed ...

Most stool tends to sink to the bottom of your toilet bowl, but we've all had the occasional 'floater,' and of course science ...

Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a 1,900-year-old Roman vial that could provide the first concrete evidence of human poop ...

As Mathilde Poyet ushers me through the Global Microbiome Conservancy’s laboratory in Kiel, Germany, I’m met with all sorts of state-of-the-art equipment. It’s an impressive facility, with typical lab ...

Leo Uesaka strapped cameras onto seabirds to study their takeoffs. What he got instead was a barrage of poop footage. “I was surprised to see how frequently the birds defecated in the video footage,” ...