Waste management in space has come a long way since the first moon missions. Back in the 1960s, NASA Apollo astronauts left ...

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 ...

In the storage rooms of a museum in western Turkey, an archaeologist noticed an unexpected residue inside a small Roman glass vessel. Dark-brown flakes still clung to the interior. Researchers have ...

A small Roman glass bottle discovered in western Turkey has provided the first direct chemical proof that ancient physicians used human feces as a medicinal ingredient. The vial, dating back about ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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: ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque residents will soon be able to call the city to clean up human feces left behind by people living on the streets. Albuquerque City Councilors signed off on ...