Twenty years ago, William Rathje, an archaeologist at the University of Arizona, wrote a book with Cullen Murphy, managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, titled Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage.

Whether it's indulgent food choices, sexual habits or North Korean secrets, the stuff that people throw away can reveal all, says Chris Baraniuk. Dangling over the pool of sewage, at the end of a ...

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Pre-order ‘Garbology’ on random color double vinyl in our store. About the album title, he says, “Garbology is defined as the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals ...

What makes humans different from other species? To environmental engineer and Santa Clara University professor Stephanie Hughes, it's the fact that we produce things that can't be used again in nature ...

A professor lends worms to students, takes them to sewage processing plants and encourages them to answer their own questions about garbage.... What makes humans different from other species? To ...