Health chiefs are warning festive shoppers to wash their hands regularly after a study found both faeces and vomit-inducing bugs - on self-service check-out screens. The investigation, where ...

A disturbing case has emerged from Bulemi in the Weija Gbawe Municipality, where a family of three has reportedly been living ...

A road in Stoke-on-Trent has been covered with raw sewage after drains erupted following heavy rainfall earlier this week.

Healthy adults who have a good constitution and have a healthy heart are being called forth to donate samples of their faeces to science. The donors would be screened rigorously before they can be ...

A surprising discovery by Turkish researchers has revealed that ancient Romans may have used human faeces for medicinal purposes. A 1,900-year-old Roman vial, found in western Turkey, provides what ...

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 ...

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 ...

SO-CALLED ORGANIC crops, grown without recourse to synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, are credited with miraculous properties by many of their fans. Unfortunately, there is little scientific ...

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, ...