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 ...

New research finds that dogs being walked in nature reserves contribute a significant amount of nutrients to the environment through their feces and urine, which researchers warn could negatively ...

A man with auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition in which gut microbes produce intoxicating levels of alcohol, has been ...

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A study has claimed to show that modern ‘green’ products recycled from human excreta are excellent – and importantly, safe – fertilizers to use on food crops. The idea of using human urine and faeces ...

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Many vegetarians who reject meat feel disgust which closely matches the aversion others feel to the idea of eating human flesh, faeces or dog meat, new research has found. A study led by the ...