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Fist Bumps Are For Germophobes
Fist bumps are back in the news this week after the publication of a study finding that fist bumps transfer fewer bacteria than the more customary handshake.
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If you build it, they will come: designing microbial ecosystems in cheese
Microbes live in dense and diverse communities. There are billions of bacteria from thousands of species living together in your gut or in the soil.
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Four Great Scents from Outer Space
You don’t need your nose to know what something smells like. Perfumers and astronomers can detect and recreate scents based on the chemical signatures of the molecules in the air, even if that...
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