37 People Want to Peer Inside Your Poop...You Know, for Science.

"Wasp's Got Guts" in the July/August print edition of Discover Magazine discusses how wasp microbiomes set them apart. Turns out, our guts can be pretty different from one another too. Rob Knight, a microbiologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his colleagues want poop from every person in America. And over the past couple of years, thousands of citizen scientists have complied by shipping little vials of feces to his lab. To clarify, it's not exactly the poop that these sci