Over 14 days, they filled cells with lab-made wastewater spiked with real human urine. Researchers uncover key to converting ...

An increase in water shortages and greenhouse gas emissions is a serious enough climate problem that scientists are willing to go to any lengths to save the world. One trick in our bioagricultural ...

In a brightly-lit laboratory in the south of France, nestled between fields of wheat and sunflowers, bottles of human urine are gently jiggling around in an incubator. In a warehouse next door, ...

A shortage of chemical fertilizer, worsened by the war in Ukraine, has growers desperate. It just so happens that human urine has the very nutrients that crops need. A funnel for collecting urine in ...

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Turning air and astronaut urine into a meal may sound like science fiction, but it’s a serious proposal from European scientists. A new project led by the European Space Agency (ESA) aims to produce ...