Dog faeces can still be troublesome thousands of years after being dumped. Archaeologists can end up in deep doodoo if they mistake it for human faeces. But now an artificial intelligence system has ...

GO FOR a bracing winter stroll in a major US city and you will be inhaling more than vehicle fumes. A new study has demonstrated for the first time that during winter most of the airborne bacteria in ...

In Switzerland, a bold initiative is under way: the freezing of human faeces to preserve global biodiversity. This isn’t just about safeguarding nature’s diversity of plants and animals – human gut ...

Doctors in ancient Rome used human feces in remedies for wounds and eye infections A 1,900-year-old glass vial from Pergamon contained faecal residue mixed with herbs The mixture included thyme, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly two billion people use water contaminated by faeces, posing a global ...

The Welkom Magistrate Court has found a disgruntled patient who poured faeces over a Free State healthcare worker guilty of assault and humiliating health workers. A 38-year-old man’s sentencing is ...

ECOSYSTEMS ARE complex things, and monitoring their health is hard. To track every species would be impossible, so ecologists commonly focus on those that, like canaries in coal mines, are thought to ...