Robert Burakoff, MD, MPH, is a board-certified gastroenterologist who serves as vice chair of Ambulatory Services at Lower Manhattan Hospital and professor of medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical ...

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 ...

The complaints are piling up. A putrid sidewalk so blanketed with poop that it’s barely passable has become a symbol of the Big Apple’s winter crap crisis — as complaints over dog waste reach record ...

It’s tempting to say The Romantic, the fourth studio album from Bruno Mars and his first solo work in a decade, sounds like ...

The Big Apple has gone from winter wonderland to poop-filled purgatory in the weeks since last month’s one-foot blanketing of snow — forcing New Yorkers to tip-toe through nasty minefields of ...

Of course bears do that. But what if something could be made of that scat? It is a ridiculous idea and for Columbia Sportswear, that was the point. For an promotion built around Super Bowl LX, the ...

On the desert coast of southern Peru, wealth didn’t glitter. It grew in cornfields. Hundreds of years before the Inca Empire rose to power, the Chincha Kingdom thrived in one of the driest regions on ...

Sometimes, you have to do things that seem unwise because it’s your job and somebody’s got to do it. Some people strap themselves to buildings and clean the windows from outside. Some people pilot ...

The pre-Inca Chincha Kingdom (circa 1000-1400 CE), along Peru’s southern coast, was one of the most wealthy and influential of its time before falling to the Inca and Spanish empires. Scientists have ...

Poor Dennis Whitaker (Gerran Howell) really did spend most of The Pitt Season 1 getting puked, peed, and generally pooped on. Through Whitaker, the HBO Max show was giving audiences an ...

Researchers in Turkey say they have unearthed archaeological evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments. Although Roman texts described the practice, this is the first time that ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...