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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind smart underwear to track how often people actually fart, an advance that could lead to new insights into human metabolism. Until now, tracking human farts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gas guzzler: The smart underpants developed in the US to track wind show that we fart about twice as much as previously assumed.

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 ...