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 ...

A privacy brouhaha has erupted over Kohler Health’s new toilet camera, the Dekota, that scans your poop looking for clues about your gut health. Specifically, a security researcher is disputing Kohler ...

The Dekoda scanner from Kohler is a smart camera that attaches to your toilet and evaluates what’s in the bowl. Kohler, a company best known for its plumbing fixtures, recently released the Dekoda ...

If you’ve ever been struck by urgent signals from your bowels in the middle of a work meeting, a first date, or a milestone event, it may have felt like the worst possible time to need to go. You ...

For just US$600, you can finally say goodbye to the tedious hassle of snapping pictures of your excrement every day in the bathroom – Kohler's new camera will automatically do it for you. Wait, you're ...

Home appliance brand Kohler is getting into the smart camera business, although its new camera isn’t designed to catch crooks in the act. Instead, Kohler’s smart cam is aimed at something more ...

Steam Next Fest is here, and we've already found plenty of cool new indie games to explore. But this might be the strangest one yet. Described as a "retro poopy precision platformer" Unko Technica ...

Jocelyn Solis-Moreira is a freelance health and science journalist based in New York. There’s nothing like shutting the bathroom door, maybe even locking it and hiding away from one’s family, even ...

An immunocompromised woman’s cat stirred up a lot more trouble than usual (for a cat). In a recent case report, doctors detail how the feline likely spread a seldom-seen bacterial infection that ...

Feces are a valuable tool in the world of animal identification. It might sound gross, but it’s one of the best ways to determine an animal’s behavior. An animal’s poop, known as scat, tells you where ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Male fertility is on a decline worldwide—and cat poop might have something to do with it. New research suggests that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite spread primarily through infected cat feces, ...