DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...

Scientists at ARUP Laboratories have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that detects intestinal parasites in ...

Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.

In the late 1950s, archaeologists discovered a cave in the Rio Zape Valley of Mexico. There were ancient human remains in the cave dated to between 660 and 1430 A.D., many of which belonged to ...

In the wee hours of the morning in a lab in Amherst, Massachusetts, geoscience graduate student Rob D’Anjou sat looking over test results, a pot of coffee nearby. He’d been pulling long days to ...

History remembers warriors for their conquests and kings for their reigns. But this one Viking left behind something more ...

Clipped inside the rim of your toilet, the Dekoda’s optical sensor analyzes your stool for insights about your gut heath.