This story may fall into the category of news you'd just as soon miss. A Texas A&M team led by Vladislav Yakovlev, professor of biomedical engineering, is developing a test for fecal contamination in ...

Let’s talk about something you experience everyday, but may take for granted: that pee is yellow. A few weeks ago, I was surprised to learn that scientists only recently figured out why. That typical ...

Scientists have some whiz-dom to share with those who have wondered what gives urine its distinct color. For over 150 years, it has been a mystery why urine from the human body comes out as yellow.

There are many mysteries in life that we end up shrugging off. Why is urine yellow? It just is, right? Rather than flush that 125-year-old question down the toilet, scientists sought out the answer, ...

Scientists say they’ve finally answered an age-old question: Just why is our pee yellow? In new research, a team found the enzyme produced by gut bacteria that plays a major role in turning our urine ...

An urban myth, spread by parents around the world to stop their children peeing in the pool, claims urine turns swimming water purple. Although this isn’t the case, a firm from Texas has created a ...

Technology capable of sampling water systems to find indicators of fecal matter contamination that are thousandths and even millionths of times smaller than those found by conventional methods is ...