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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – As the city addresses the homelessness crisis, it’s an aspect of the issue that doesn’t get as much attention: the human feces left behind by those living on the streets.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Worshippers at St. Sylvester’s R.C. church in Concord were shocked to learn the front of their church ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque residents will soon be able to call the city to clean up human feces left behind by people living on the streets. Albuquerque City Councilors signed off on ...

Washington Post columnist Philip Bump fact-checked San Francisco’s human feces problem with various interpretations of defecation maps, some suggesting a few streets are actually poop-free, while ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A California dog owner is warning other pet owners in the city of what happened to her dog, Pockets, after she got sick from ingesting human waste tainted with marijuana and opioids ...

Police have been assigned to the church through the holiday season, and the incident remains under investigation.

“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: ...

History remembers warriors for their conquests and kings for their reigns. But this one Viking left behind something more tangible and far more unique—his poop. We’re not just talking about any ...