Most stool tends to sink to the bottom of your toilet bowl, but we've all had the occasional 'floater,' and of course science ...

Have you ever been drifting off to sleep when suddenly you hear what sounds like a gunshot, a door slamming, or an explosion inside your head? You jolt awake, heart pounding, sit upright in bed, but ...

Remember the last time you pooped, stood up, turned around, and carefully took note of your log’s shape and texture?… No? Can’t recall? Well, according to gastroenterologists, you might want to start.

The fighting continues in the Middle East, and oil’s back on the move, as the clock ticks on President Donald Trump’s five-day deadline for resolving differences with Iran. That’s the backdrop for ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Fifty years ago, in a small San Francisco office above a fast-food restaurant, a ...

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Reporter Paul Linnman and photographer Doug Brazil visited the Oregon Coast on November 12, 1970 during what eventually became known as the Exploding Whale Incident. (KATU) FLORENCE, Ore. (Amazing ...

Forget checking your Oura ring data. If you really want insight into your health, you should check out your poop. Even if you don’t go to the lengths of mailing your excrement to a team of scientists ...

The city is currently a dog-shit nightmare. There’s no other way to say it. Dog owners seem to have taken January’s snowstorm as carte blanche to violate an already tenuous social contract: They have ...

Thirteen miles off the coast of Peru lies a trio of islands with mountainous piles of guano, nicknamed “white gold.” This seabird poop mixed with other waste is such a powerful nitrogen deposit that ...