This practice reflects the Romans' resourcefulness in using available materials for medicine, despite modern views on hygiene ...

ECOSYSTEMS ARE complex things, and monitoring their health is hard. To track every species would be impossible, so ecologists commonly focus on those that, like canaries in coal mines, are thought to ...

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Dog faeces can still be troublesome thousands of years after being dumped. Archaeologists can end up in deep doodoo if they mistake it for human faeces. But now an artificial intelligence system has ...

Healthy adults who have a good constitution and have a healthy heart are being called forth to donate samples of their faeces to science. The donors would be screened rigorously before they can be ...