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 ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Metabolism, researchers presented a method to quantify food-derived deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in human stool metagenomes using a computationally ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - DNA from ancient human feces found in a cave in Oregon provides biological verification that people were in North America 14,000 years ago, researchers said on Thursday. Sign up ...

DNA within dried feces dating from more than 1,000 years ago provides valuable insights into the pathogens that plagued ancient Mexican peoples, according to a study published October 22, 2025 in the ...

“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: ...