The winners of the 2020 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced, and the honored experiments include frozen knives made from poop, an alligator forced to inhale helium, and vibrating earthworms. This ...

Maybe this year’s Ig Nobels, the spoof prizes for dubious but humorous scientific achievement, should have been renamed the Ick Nobels. An anthropologist who tested an urban legend by fashioning a ...

Katy Perry found another use for her face mask. The “Daisies” singer was seen taking off her disposable surgical mask — worn to help stop the spread of COVID-19 — to pick up her dog’s poop instead.

Poop could help flush away the coronavirus, scientists say. Studying human feces in sewer systems worldwide may be the secret to curbing a second wave of COVID-19 until widespread testing is available ...

Bay Area scientists are searching for the COVID-19 virus not only in our noses, but somewhere more private: our poop. When we flush our toilets, the waste vanishes, never to be seen, smelled or ...

It’s the fourth month of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and boy have we seen some shit. In addition to at least 118,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus, nearly 2.2 million people ...

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2019, file photo, the 2019 Ig Nobel award is displayed at the 29th annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The spoof prizes for weird and ...

Bay Area scientists are searching for the COVID-19 virus not only in our noses, but somewhere more private: our poop. When we flush our toilets, the waste vanishes, never to be seen, smelled or ...