The oldest known joke in known human history is not "Why did the chicken cross the road?" In fact, it's a fart joke that can be traced all the way back to ...

Meta's Ray-Ban glasses are sparking a popular genre of video on social media: harassing store employees and random people.

Scientists used smart underwear to track how often people fart, revealing surprising results about gut microbes and what’s ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia man accused of passing gas and fanning it toward a police officer no longer faces a battery charge. The Kanawha County prosecutor’s office requested that the charge ...

It was a heated meeting in Aspinwall on Wednesday as the council voted to censure Mayor Scott Zimmerman.

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 ...

A man who sounded suspiciously like Donald Trump and used a pseudonym once favoured by the US President called into a live broadcast to bellyache about the Supreme Court's tariffs decision. But, ...

Farting is one of the body’s most common — and necessary — digestive processes. Gas is created as gut bacteria digests the food we eat, or as the result of swallowing air (aerophagia), and releasing ...

Researchers developed a tiny fart-measuring device that snaps into underwear. Left: University of Maryland. Right: S. Botasini et al., Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X, 2025 under CC BY 4.0 How many ...

Did you get wind of what that new fart study found—you know the one recently published in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X? Well, participants in the study farted on average 32 times a day ...

Whether you’re breaking wind, farting hard or just letting out a quick toot, flatulence is—whether you want to admit it or not—as much a daily necessity as breathing. But exactly how often the average ...