Miners in Myanmar have unearthed an 11,000-carat ruby thought to be the second heaviest ever found in the war-torn country. The ruby, pictured sitting at the president office in Naypyidaw, weighs ...

A large ruby weighing more than 2 kilograms has been found in Myanmar. The ruby was unearthed near the town of Mogok, in the upper Mandalay region, the heartland of the lucrative gem-mining industry ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

There’s a new movement taking shape in the bathroom. With rates of colorectal cancer on the rise among younger patients, more people are paying closer attention to the status of their poop than ever: ...

Remember the last time you pooped, stood up, turned around, and carefully took note of your log’s shape and texture?… No? Can’t recall? Well, according to gastroenterologists, you might want to start.

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

"Ghost poop" is a bowel movement that seemingly disappears without a trace after you flush the toilet. There’s no sign of it either in the toilet paper that you used to wipe your butt or in the toilet ...

Much of the food you eat is absorbed by your digestive system, which includes your stomach and your intestines. But some of what you eat makes it all the way through those twists and turns and comes ...

You can tell a lot about people by how they behave in a crisis. And it’s safe to say the voyage of the Carnival Triumph, better known as the Poop Cruise, was an icky, smelly, particularly grotesque ...

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Animation is developing I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story based on the popular children’s book by Mark Pett, with Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort producing under their first-look deal ...

Move over, Marie Kondo, there’s a new approach to decluttering that’s taking over social media. It’s a little juvenile, and more than a little gross, but it’s sparking joy for people who are ...

Comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) is crucial in precision oncology, yet its real-world utility remains unclear. Here we analyzed data from the Japanese nationwide Center for Cancer Genomics and ...