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 ...

Scientists are deep-freezing human poop in a "doomsday" vault in Switzerland that already contains more than 1,000 fecal samples, and the researchers now say they want to amass 10,000 samples by 2029.

VIENNA, Austria -- Recent research suggests small pieces of plastic have made their way into the human gut, but some scientists aren't ready to draw any conclusions. In a Medical University of Vienna ...