Feces News

Toronto - Researchers in Canada are considering the feasibility of using biogas, derived from human waste, to produce energy. They argue that each year people produce waste that could be converted to energy worth $9.5 billion, at current prices.

Researchers in Belgium are looking at excrement of giant pandas in hopes to find clues on how to develop new generations of biofuel.

Denver - A new study has revealed that human feces contain microscopic nuggets of gold, as well as silver and other rare metals such as palladium.

Part of the body’s immune system called MyD88 is responsible for promoting a healthy colony of good bacteria. The more "good" bacteria, the better the digestive health. A new study has explored this further.

Researchers have developed a novel method to study the Ebola virus in wildlife. The new technique is based on apes, like humans, who survive viral infections developing antibodies against the infection.

Most people are better off not knowing how the chicken they buy at the supermarket is raised and processed. Knowing that information would make people swear off eating meat for the rest of their lives. But new regulations aren't going to improve things.

On Friday a man in St. Louis received two years probation for mailing cat feces to companies that didn't hire him. He plead guilty to mailing injurious articles.

Giant pandas Ya Ya and Le Le, located at the Memphis Zoo, could provide a solution for biofuel production. Scientists are searching the feces from the pandas for useful microbes.

Finding the magic catalyst for biofuel production is a major industrial aim. Scientists have outlined the discovery of a potential range of suitable enzymes in fungi thriving in the feces and intestinal tracts of horses.

Bristol - In a collaborative effort between Wessex Water and Bristol Robotics Laboratory, scientists in Great Britain have developed a robot capable of transforming human waste into usable energy.

Anaconda - Someone playing a prank urinated into the can of coffee grounds and later smeared clumps of feces into the coffee machine at the Anaconda, Montana courthouse. County employees who drank the coffee had complained that it tasted "really bad."

Miami - Cops flinging feces in Florida may not be the case, but it does seem possible, and could be a simple case of retaliation.

It is hard to believe that something made out of feces would be worth tens of thousands of dollars, but one poopy creation from a Chinese artist recently sold for $45,000.

Spring has sprung in my neighborhood and that means garden season has begun. Bunny rabbits and baby robins are feeding in the fresh tilled garden in search of their daily dinner. It also means one FDA vegetable recall after another headed to my in box.

Hamilton, Ontario will become the first Canadian municipality to produce biofuel from human waste after getting a $30 million grant. The technology has been in use in Europe for decades, and allows methane gas to be harvested from human waste.

The father opened the bag held by his 5-year-old son and found a smelly package inside the bag. The teacher gave the boy a bag of poo as punishment.

The tiny town of Mulberry, Florida has a big problem. Raw sewage has leaked out in the heart of this town with a little more than 3,000 people threatening to expose health risks. It has an even bigger problem, the cost to fix it will break the bank.

Friday afternoon, someone whom apparently had a bellyful of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Offices in St. Paul, went into several office rooms and left little smelly piles of poop. Who could this pooping perp be?

Ronnie A. Ballard, 19yrs old of Madison Wisconsin was charged with three counts of disorderly conduct, three counts of criminal damage to property, and one count of bail jumping. He was caught using a laundry room in an apartment building, as a toilet.

There is a new drug that has been reported that some kids are starting to use. It is called "jenkem". It is a hallucinogen drug which was first used in Africa. It begins with feces and urine.

4 men have been rescued from a giant vat of fish feces at the Australis Aquaculture fish farm in Massachusetts.

A suspended Toronto elementary school principal has pleaded guilty to throwing feces on a child. Maria Pantalone, 49, was charged with two counts of assault - one against that child and one against another – but only admitted to one of the charges today

Last November, three homeless men in the city of Las Vegas were arrested and charged with sleeping next to human feces.

Latest poop scoop: David Nicholls, a Californian quadriplegic, was walking his dog when a hotel worker insisted Nicholls remove the rectal remnants from the area. Nicholls insisted the job was the responsibility of the hotel worker, who next calls police.