Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

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As I type this, a battery-powered computer tucked in my, er, swimsuit area is monitoring for my next flatus. Yes, flatus means “fart.” Don’t judge me—it’s for science. This sensing device, which would ...

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 ...

Feb. 16 (UPI) --University of Maryland researchers designed "Smart Underwear" to track and measure flatulence -- and they are seeking volunteers to wear them. Brantley Hall, an assistant professor in ...

Scientists in America have created a rather unusual type of underwear. For the first time ever, a new, tiny wearable device has been designed to measure human farts. By recording the amount of certain ...

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 ...

There are some stories that you can tell a writer has enjoyed composing, and, likely, whoever wrote the piece for Medical Express reporting on new smart underwear to measure human flatulence was in ...

Did you know that fart gas can help protect your brain? Yip, it is time to sound the trumpets with pride. File photo: iStock A new study has found that humans fart twice as much as was once believed.

HGTV has pulled the plug on “Rehab Addict” after video resurfaced with star Nicole Curtis using the n-word. The epithet was dropped during a filming of the reality series in which Curtis rehabilitates ...

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