Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s disease. Now they just need samples from the people living in the most ...

Human spaceflight created unexpected challenges, including how astronauts use the bathroom in a weightless environment. Early ...

Below Deck Mediterranean just hit an all time guest low with a group that pooped in the shower before trying to hide it in the drain. During the Monday, December 22, episode of the hit Bravo series, ...

Most people have a preferred way of communication—phone, text, email—but bare-nosed wombats have an unusual way of relaying information. The Australian marsupial communicates by … there's no delicate ...

If the thought of answering nature’s call in your office’s communal bathroom makes you break out in a sweat, you’re far from alone. Surveys show that a third of employees are scared to poop on the job ...

You may be sitting on – so to speak – a very valuable asset that scientists would love to get their hands on: your poop. As well as blood, plasma and organs, you can now donate fecal samples to stool ...

Did you know that unko, or poop, is a symbol in Japan’s kawaii culture? In Japan, poop isn’t always seen as something gross — it’s often portrayed as cute and funny, especially in manga and pop ...

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Everyone poops. But how often? Given the fact that modern society has, for good reason, sequestered the ritual to isolation, it’s normal to wonder what it’s like—and the frequency with which it ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The owner of a stately home in Denver’s Congress Park neighborhood is suing neighbors for harassment after they turned her property into a target for their ...

Our precious fur babies tend to have a mind of their own, doing odd things for attention or just bizarre things in general. Something almost all dogs do before lying down or, primarily, before taking ...

If you’ve ever been struck by urgent signals from your bowels in the middle of a work meeting, a first date, or a milestone event, it may have felt like the worst possible time to need to go. You ...