Zen digesters” rarely fart. “Hydrogen hyperproducers” fart a lot. Scientists are investigating what is typical.

Doctors share their thoughts on what’s normal when it comes to gas and what needs to be checked out.

Do quiet farts smell worse than loud ones? Doctors explain why flatulence happens, what causes gas to smell, and whether the silent-but-deadly phenomenon is real.

When Brantley Hall opened enrollment for his Human Flatus Atlas project to measure how much wind people break in a day, he ...

It’s an awkward, often smelly, fact of life. People fart, there’s no way around it, but there are ways you can control how much you do. Whatever you call it, farting, passing wind, popping off, it is ...

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Experts explain why the gas we release in the shower smells much worse than what we release during the day, and there are three reasons that are unrelated to what we ate. Is it true that our farts ...

The new film Swiss Army Man — better known as Daniel Radcliffe’s farting corpse movie — has thrust flatulence back into the cultural spotlight. In the film, Radcliffe’s dead butthole literally gets ...

Rachel Fairbank is a freelance science writer based in Texas. When she is not writing, she can be found spending time with her family, or at her local boxing gym. One important thing to understand ...