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This Fake Poop Is Helping Designers Test the Toilet of the Future

Toilet tech is no longer the oft-overlooked subject it once was, and much of that is thanks to the Gates Foundation, which has made helping the 3.5 billion people lacking access to clean toilets one of its main missions. But how does one test the durability of potential cost-effective commodes? By using fake poop, of…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

The Secret to Weight Loss Might Be Poop Transplants From Skinny People

As unlikely as it might seem, fecal transplants are actually turning out to be the stuff dreams are made of. And apparently, this magical poop procedure still has plenty to give. After some successful rounds of experimenting, scientists now believe that one possible answer to the rampant obesity problem could very well be lying in…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Astronauts Traveling To Mars Could Be Protected By a Poop Shield

There are all kinds of dangers on a trip to Mars. Muscle atrophy, cramped quarters, social/isolation stress, being in space. Take your pick. One of the biggest though, is being exposed to all manner of radiation and cosmic rays without an o-zone layer to keep you safe. The solution? An O-zone layer of poop. Basically.…

Tech News Eric Limer

Manned Mars mission plans include a radiation shield made of poop

Now that millionaire space tourist Dennis Tito has officially announced his intention to send a man and a woman on a round-trip journey to Mars in 2018, a few more details are trickling out about the Inspiration Mars project. One such detail is how the Inspiration Mars team plans to protect its astronauts from cosmic…

io9 Lauren Davis

How Did You Poop Before Smartphones?

Sitting on the can without a smartphone—much like sitting at the bar without a smartphone—is soooo boring. What are you supposed to do with yourself? Be alone with your thoughts? Talk to the person on the toilet/stool next to you? Ugh. This video from the nice folks at College Humor totally nails our modern smartphone…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Rosacea could be caused by mites unleashing feces inside your pores

Holy crap. File this away under things you desperately wish you could un-know: lurking in your pores right now are tiny bugs, closely related to spiders, that live off your facial oils. Usually, these bugs are harmless, but harbor too many of them and their tendency to die and decompose while they’re inside you becomes…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This is what blue whale poop looks like from an airplane. Tremble.

The average blue whale is approximately the length of three school buses. Heck, even a newborn calf is 23 feet long at birth. And do you see that horrific orange streak trailing behind those whales above? Yup, that’s a big load of whale feces, an oceanic skidmark maybe the length of a few Volvos. Photographer…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

10 Surprising Things That Bacteria Like to Eat

You’ve probably heard of necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating bacteria. But bacteria do not actually eat human flesh. They’re actually trying to gobble up something a lot weirder. Here are ten of the stranger things bacteria naturally (and unnaturally) eat. You’ll never look at dirty underwear the same way again. https://gizmodo.com/does-flesh-eating-bacteria-really-make-a-meal-out-of-yo-5900416 10. Nuclear Waste…

io9 Keith Veronese

The Secret of Weight Loss May Be In 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Poop

Scientists may have found one of the keys to weight loss hiding in the poop of 3,000-year-old mummies. The bacterial DNA found in their guts is very different from our modern intestinal flora. The reason: chlorinated water and antibiotics. That’s the first hypothesis of Dr. Cecil Lewis. According to Lewis—who is leading a team of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Taboo Treatment: How Fecal Transplants Save Lives

Some medical treatments often go unspoken about because they’re icky. But here’s one you should know of: fecal transplants. Because while having someone else’s excrement put inside your body does sound gross, it’s a process that’s saving lives. But how on Earth can another person’s poop be good for you? It turns out that it’s…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Playing In the Sand Could Make You Pay On the Toilet

Some people go to the beach but eschew going into the water because it’s “gross”. If that’s you, then you are a sucker. According to a new EPA study, playing in the sand more than doubles your chances of getting sick. The study, which was a collaboration between the EPA, UNC Chapel Hill, and Johns…

Health Brent Rose

Bacteria colors your poop to diagnose what ails you

What if diagnosing salmonella or colorectal cancer was as easy as looking in the toilet? Scientists and designers are collaborating to create a new type of bacteria that beautifies your fecal matter while diagnosing your illness. We mentioned E. chromi, the color-coded designer bacteria made from E. coli, back in June. When brought to genetically…

io9 Lauren Davis

The wombat’s cubic poop is one of nature’s weirdest superpowers

Every evening, your average wombat deposits 80 to 100 dry, cube-like droppings around its territory. This nocturnal marsupial unloads four to eight of these 2-centimeter wide feces every time it pauses to excrete. This panoply of square droppings isn’t just evolution evincing a sense of potty humor. No, the wombats’ many odiferous turds help the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Skiing on Poo Snow Is Perhaps Less Gross than You Think (Updated)

Flagstaff, Arizona wants to expand it Snowbowl Ski Resort, and is working with the Forest Service to find a way to make it happen. The solution? Use reclaimed poop water to get that powder you need. Gross! Except the poop might not be the problem. You recall that there’s the problem of psychological contagion, right?…

Health Kwame Opam

Why Drinking Purified Poo Water Is So Gross, Even When It Shouldn’t Be

There’s a reason you don’t drink out of the toilet. It’s gross. Even if you got a super toilet that only flushed diamond rain water, it’d still be disgusting. But that’s the thing. The only thing keeping you from drinking cleansed pisswater is you. According to NPR, proposals to reuse sewage and turn it into…

Health Kwame Opam

Sperm whales’ doo-doo keeps their carbon footprint in check

Every year, the average sperm whale poops out 50 metric tons of iron, an amount equal to 30.3 2009 Hyundai Accents. These ferrous feces nourish phytoplankton at the ocean’s surface, which in turn absorb CO2 for photosynthesis. According to a recent paper published in the journal the Proceedings of the Royal Society B by researchers…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Where Does The Poop Go?

Since we were old enough to flush, we have been amazed by the miracle of sewage. How disorienting and constipating to learn that this miracle is not quite a miracle, per se. London-based science journalist Rose George’s book about the subject, The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters, explores…

Books & Comics Alex Carnevale

Turd Twister is like A Fecal Cookie Cutter

Holy crap, literally! The Turd Twister is one hell of a unique gadget. Remember those Play-Doh machines back in the day that would pump out spaghetti and other shapes in Play-Doh—well this is pretty much identical, but the dough is of a more home-made variety. Pop the Turd Twister of your choice into the poop…

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This Fake Poop Is Helping Designers Test the Toilet of the Future

The Secret to Weight Loss Might Be Poop Transplants From Skinny People

Astronauts Traveling To Mars Could Be Protected By a Poop Shield

Manned Mars mission plans include a radiation shield made of poop

How Did You Poop Before Smartphones?

Rosacea could be caused by mites unleashing feces inside your pores

This is what blue whale poop looks like from an airplane. Tremble.

10 Surprising Things That Bacteria Like to Eat

The Secret of Weight Loss May Be In 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Poop

The Taboo Treatment: How Fecal Transplants Save Lives

Playing In the Sand Could Make You Pay On the Toilet

Bacteria colors your poop to diagnose what ails you

The wombat’s cubic poop is one of nature’s weirdest superpowers

Skiing on Poo Snow Is Perhaps Less Gross than You Think (Updated)

Why Drinking Purified Poo Water Is So Gross, Even When It Shouldn’t Be

Sperm whales’ doo-doo keeps their carbon footprint in check

Where Does The Poop Go?

Turd Twister is like A Fecal Cookie Cutter

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