For millennia we've had written records of ancient doctors prescribing medicine with poop in it, but until very recently, we've never had the proof.

Microsoft is looking to lower its vast carbon footprint by pumping human waste 5,000 feet below the ground's surface. The tech giant hopes to offset its massive carbon footprint, only exacerbated by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stool transplants are cutting-edge experimental procedures, but using poop as medicine is hardly a modern idea. Ancient Romans ...

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 ...

And, from a dog’s point of view, human feces appears to be tasty and surprisingly nutritious. Given its nutritional value and accessibility, it is certainly reasonable to think that in some places, ...

Learn how a team of researchers has turned human waste into biochar, a building material that could be used to make ...

“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: ...