Geese have always been among my top 10 scariest animals. Canada geese, the most common species of goose at UW, are known to be very territorial. Yet while many interpret this as aggression or anger, ...

Before the Inca civilization rose to power in what’s now Peru, the Chincha Kingdom reigned as a prosperous society on the country’s southern coast. Now, scientists have discovered that seabird ...

The secret to a pre-Inca kingdom's power? Bird poop. New research shows how guano fertilizer transformed Peru's coastal desert into farmland.

A hundred thousand people flourished in an otherwise inhospitable place by knowing the value of bird poop and how to use it.

It’s not considered polite to talk about it, but we all do it. Some of us are in and out so quickly that nobody would even ...

In 1532, in the city of Cajamarca, Peru, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and a group of Europeans took the Inca ruler ...

French astronaut Sophie Adenot is set to fly to the International Space Station on Friday, 13 February 2026. She will launch at around 11:00 CET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as ...

The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to valleys as early as the 13th century, and this powerful fertiliser may have been key to its economic success ...

Green-Wood Cemetery aims to start human composting in 2027, making it the first to put the process — known as Natural Organic ...

Australia's Sydney Water confirmed there is a massive fatberg "the size of four buses" in a difficult-to-reach position under ...

Guano dramatically boosted the production of maize, and the surplus helped fuel the Chincha Kingdom’s economy.