Learning the Ropes, and the Shackles and the Bolts, in Antarctica

A squad of graduate students aboard the icebreaker Araon is getting a crash course in the slow and physical work of ocean exploration.
ScienceAlert on MSN

Ancient Romans Really Did Use Poop as Medicine. We Just Got The First Real Proof.

Stool transplants are cutting-edge experimental procedures, but using poop as medicine is hardly a modern idea. Ancient ...
Scientific American

This ancient South American kingdom ran on bird poop

Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Seabird Poop May Have Fueled This Pre-Inca Kingdom’s Rise to Power in South America

Before the Inca civilization rose to power in what’s now Peru, the Chincha Kingdom reigned as a prosperous society on the country’s southern coast. Now, scientists have discovered that seabird ...
Bethesda Magazine

A small step toward net-zero carbon emissions? Making power out of poop

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission’s Piscataway Bioenergy Project serves those counties. And the facility in ...

Do you have ‘banana poop’? Here’s what it means for your health.

There’s a useful chart that can help you determine if your stool falls into a healthy or not-so-healthy category.
The Healthy @Reader's Digest on MSN

Here’s why coffee makes you poop, explained by a GI doctor and science

Gut health experts explain how coffee stimulates a bathroom run (caffeine's not the only contributor) and whether you can ...