Who doesn't want a camera in their toilet? Image of the Throne Toilet Computer perched on the side of a toilet. Throne has rocked up to CES 2026 to show off its forthcoming toilet computer which uses computer vision to study your poop. It hangs from the side of the bowl and has a camera and microphone to track bowel motions and urination and offer feedback. It was co-founded by (activity tracker) Whoop co-founder John Capodilupo, who explained the hardware is designed to understand what your base state is to be able to identify when you fall out of that pattern.

They might be the smallest falcon, but American kestrels still intimidate other birds. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. No one wants poop on their cherries . Farmers in northern Michigan could get some help on this fecal matter from some feathered allies. Small falcons called the American kestrel help deter smaller birds that like to snack on the fruit when it is growing.

Environment Conservation Land Tiny prairie dogs' poop play a mighty role in grasslands Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Earth is made of cycles. If you think back to high school Earth science class, you might remember the water cycle, the rock cycle, and the oxygen cycle, to name just a few. These natural processes continuously recycle our planet's materials, maintaining the environment that hosts life as we know it. The nutrient cycle is another crucial example of our planet's constant churn.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The first-ever professional eating competition between goats, appropriately called The Great Goat Graze-Off, will take place on July 12 in New York City. The event will feature five invasive plant-eating fiends from the Riverside Park Conservancy--Kash, Rufus, Mallomar, Romeo, and Butterball. "Competitive eating events--whether human or goat--are quirky, high-energy spectacles that tap into our love for friendly competition and fun," Alison Ettinger-DeLong, communications manager at Riverside Park Conservancy, tells Popular Science on behalf of the conservancy team. "People enjoy watching the goats munch with gusto and cheer for their favorites, but the deeper enjoyment comes from seeing animals do what they naturally love (for goats, that's eat!) while learning about their role in environmental care."

Is it possible to really understand someone else's mind? Technically speaking, neuroscientists have been able to read your mind for decades. First, you must lie motionless within a fMRI scanner, perhaps for hours, while you watch films or listen to audiobooks. If you do elect to endure claustrophobic hours in the scanner, the software will learn to generate a bespoke reconstruction of what you were seeing or listening to, just by analyzing how blood moves through your brain. More recently, researchers have deployed generative AI tools, like Stable Diffusion and GPT, to create far more realistic, if not entirely accurate, reconstructions of films and podcasts based on neural activity.

It's something we all do, yet is often seen as a taboo subject. Now, scientists are finally lifting the lid on our bowel movements, with the launch of a new camera for your toilet. Researchers from Throne Science have developed a bizarre device that clips onto the side of the bowl, and uses AI to analyse your stools. Thankfully, you won't be shown the photos themselves, and instead will receive a breakdown on the shape, size and structure of your waste. 'Monitoring bowel movements can provide valuable insights into digestive health and nutrient absorption, as well as serve as an early warning sign for various conditions like gastrointestinal bleeding,' Throne Science explains on its website.

I miss having clean floors. I've been using a variety of Roombas over the years to help out with vacuuming, but ever since my wife and I had our second child in 2022, mopping has become an afterthought. And really, vacuuming can only clean your floor so much. I missed the shimmer of a mopped hardwood floor and the smell of Murphy Oil cleaner lingering in the air. Instead, I've been living with even more toys, crumbs and an assortment of bodily waste (which three cats contribute to) on my flooring and carpets.

Now that I'm dealing with three cats, an 11-month old's diapers and potty time with my four-year old, I just needed some relief from mountains of excrement. Enter the Litter Robot 4, the latest iteration of Whisker's automated litter box (a product we initially covered in 2005!). It's a small, spaceship-looking device that automatically rotates after your cat does its business, separating waste into a storage bin and leaving the remaining clean litter behind. Instead of scooping a box daily (or several times a day for multi-cat households), you only need to yank out the Litter Robot's bin bag and replace it with a new liner once a week. Sounds like a dream, right?

Pimentel, who told Motherboard he had no financial stake in the app, said artificial intelligence takes the guesswork out of the diagnostic process, which generally relies on potentially inaccurate patient self-reporting. The study found that subjects appeared reluctant to use the full BSS, tending to gravitate toward the diarrhea (low) end of the scale. Investigators compared patients' self-reported scores and AI-generated scores with "gold standards" generated by two expert gastroenterologists. Scores calculated by AI aligned more closely with the expert scores, compared with patients' self-reported scores.

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