Everyone farts. In fact, the average person farts an estimated 25 times a day, per the Cleveland Clinic. That's at least once an hour. Most of them are quick and odorless, but sometimes the smelliest ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

As far as cute puppies go, Pokémon's Ninetales is pretty well-known. Its lore, which surrounds curses, saints, and vengeful spirits, is reminiscent of the Japanese Kitsune, even though it's definitely ...

Smart underwear is redefining how researchers study the human gut. This health tech innovation uses discreet electrochemical sensors that snap into regular garments to detect hydrogen gas, the main ...

A “smart underwear” to measure human flatulence has been created by scientists from University of Maryland in the United States, and they are looking for volunteers to wear it. The aim is to help ...

Scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind 'smart underwear' device to track people's flatulence. Image courtesy: Pixabay An intrepid team of scientists has created a “smart underwear”, a device ...

The team is constructing the Human Flatus Atlas, bringing modern wearable monitors to bear on digestive health, measuring the frequency and intensity of farts. The team even had to create an ...

Some breakthroughs change humanity forever. Others, not so much. This one clips discreetly onto your underwear and monitors how often you fart – the status of your flatus. And no, it's not April ...

A wearable hydrogen sensor from the University of Maryland, playfully called the "Fitbit for farts," is monitoring digestive health with 4,000 applicants already enrolled. On my person, discreetly ...

As I type this, a battery-powered computer tucked in my, er, swimsuit area is monitoring for my next flatus. Yes, flatus means “fart.” Don’t judge me—it’s for science. This sensing device, which would ...