In this video we will be making some Skatole, the essence of poop. It has been a long journey here and I am glad I have arrived. My garage smelled like a dirty horse stable for a week after trying to ...

Questions from primary school children, such as "Why is poo so smelly?", have formed the basis of a medical exhibition. Among the artefacts in POO! at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds are ...

Male pigs pose a dilemma for the swine industry. Uncastrated males, called boars, are very efficient at turning feed into meat, but they also bring the risk of boar taint that renders their meat ...

Maximilienne Toetie Allaart receives funding from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. We’ve all been there: you try your best to keep it in, but you just can’t hold it anymore. You have to let it ...

Skatole is an infamously smelly molecule that, in some anaerobic bacteria, is synthesized from ʟ-tryptophan in a four-step process . Now, researchers have found that certain aerobic bacteria only need ...

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In a new study researchers in China found that mulberry leaf supplementation can reduce skatole production in pigs. Skatole is the main cause of odour emissions in pigs. What is skatole? Skatole is a ...

Poop, feces, stool — whatever you call it, there's no denying the unpleasant smell. While it's perfectly normal for poo to be pungent, it makes you wonder what it is about our excrement that makes it ...

Cannabis sativa L.– a plant species within the Cannabis genus also commonly known as marijuana, weed, or hemp, has been the subject of a discovery. The researchers identified new categories of ...

It's difficult to miss or mistake the distinctive smell of cannabis. Now scientists have discovered more about where the aroma comes from – and it's not, as had been thought, all down to the naturally ...