Every Thursday, a public works employee in Astoria takes a special test kit and collects a sewer sample. And nearly every week since sampling began in mid-September, the result comes back: “SARS-CoV-2 ...

During four days in mid-July someone – maybe one visitor or two – used the toilet in their vacation rental or motel room in the small Oregon coast community of Yachats. They carried the coronavirus.

JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCIV) — Crews will be sampling the area after a major sewer line broke on James Island on Wednesday. According toSouth Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC ...

Soon enough, robots may wander permanently in our sewers, just below our homes and neighbourhoods, analyzing our diets and our health as they suck up what we flush down. It's already started under the ...

While high school graduates in Oslo, Norway, partied hard for two weeks last spring during the so-called Russ graduation festivities, levels of the drug ecstasy spiked about 10-fold in the city’s ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — There's a big effort underway right now in Corvallis to try and track the COVID-19 virus. Researchers are sampling human waste to do it. No question Oregon State University wildlife ...

Union City High School set up as resource center in aftermath of deadly tornado Union City is still reeling after a deadly tornado struck the area on Friday, but the community is stepping up to help.

CU Boulder researchers, including Cresten Mansfeldt, took part in a series of webinars focusing on how the campus is preparing for the fall semester. Watch the recordings This fall, when students in ...

People worry about robots taking away our jobs, but the truth is that there are some jobs we should be pretty darn glad machines are ready and willing to perform on our behalf. One such task? Finding ...

Virologist Dave O’Connor admits that he was getting desperate when he started asking dog owners for poo samples. For much of 2022, O’Connor, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his colleagues ...