It was a story that begged for a punny headline, and journalists didn't fail to deliver. But as I mentioned in a follow-up Medtech Unfiltered video, the uBiome story was more than just a good poop ...

A neighborhood group in Philadelphia is asking opponents of a proposed apartment building to mail in poop samples as part of a study on how gentrification impacts cancer rates. "To fight ...

The popular children's book "Everyone Poops" details what every human and animal does. But what the book may not detail is that one animal's waste is actually good for the environment. Marine ...

A Michigan man devised a smelly way to resolve a property dispute with his neighbor — by erecting a 250-foot-long wall of cow poop between their homes. “Normally they spread it on the field, but they ...

In further evidence that microplastics have thoroughly polluted every corner of the Earth, scientists now report they have discovered it in newborns’ first feces. In a disturbing new pilot study ...

For years, scientists have been wondering why wombat poop is cube-shaped (yes, really). Now, they say they have got to the bottom of the mystery. Bare-nosed wombats, or common wombats, can be found in ...

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Whales might poop more than scientists previously thought. That’s one conclusion of a paper published Wednesday in Nature, in which researchers spied on baleen whales with suction-cup sensors and ...

I am ticked off at pet owners who “train” their dogs to poop in their neighbors’ yards. They walk them around the neighborhood so they can poop in my yard instead of training them to poop in their own ...

I’m all for encouraging more young people to enter STEM, to explore engineering and perhaps ultimately pursue a career in robotics. It’s a field whose importance will only grow with time, as more of ...