The comedian Shappi Khorsandi once commented that she used the mythical concept of "sugar worms" to get her children to brush their teeth after sweets. It's a trick I poached to convince my daughter ...

In extreme cases, the swelling can be profound, resulting in a condition known as elephantiasis. This is because the worm ...

Gut symptoms blight millions of Brits every year. But the cause may not be actually be irritable bowel syndrome or ...

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) constructed a faecal sludge treatment site in Aboutengue camp, Chad, ...

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How a well-liked Ivy League grad accused of the United Healthcare CEO shooting became one of the most debated murder suspects ...

The team is working towards producing a biofuel that uses human and animal excretion ... While making both fuel and fertilizer from poop could clean up the environment in more ways than one ...

So how did we become such a unique animal? Human intelligence was born in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, as our ape ancestors evolved increasingly bigger brains. That may only have happened ...