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Study: People Emit a "Germ Cloud" of Bacteria As Unique As a Fingerprint

According to a new study, we are all surrounded by a personal "germ cloud" as unique as a fingerprint.

 Lead author of the study Dr James Meadow says: "We expected that we would be able to detect the human microbiome in the air around a person, but we were surprised to find that we could identify most of the occupants just by sampling their microbial cloud.

 Our results confirm that an occupied space is microbially distinct from an unoccupied one, and demonstrate for the first time that individuals release their own personalized microbial cloud."

 The findings were published today in the journal PeerJ.

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They Don't Stink As Much As We First Thought

Following criticism that Coke has supported research that plays down the role of soft drinks in the spread of obesity, the company released a list showing nearly $120 million in grants to medical, research and community organizations.

 The Times reports: "The list, published Tuesday on the company’s website, details hundreds of Coke grants, large and small, to a variety of organizations since 2010, including physician groups, university researchers, cancer and diabetes organizations and public parks, and even a foundation for the National Institutes of Health."

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 Icky Stinky Poo

In the wake California's forest fires, cadaver dogs had to distinguish between burning homes, charred forest, and even other dead animals to pick up the unique scent of human victims. A new study reveals how they might have done it: Decomposing humans seem to release a unique chemical cocktail, one that scientists might be able to use to better train cadaver dogs and even develop machines that could do the same job.


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In a moment weaving strands of politics, religion and emotion, Pope Francis and President Barack Obama are set to meet in the grandeur of the Oval Office to advance causes dear to them both.

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Dalai Lama Says A Female Successor Must Be 'Very Attractive, Otherwise Not Much Use' 

 The Tibetan Buddhist said women have more potential to show affection and compassion, but if the next Dalai Lama is female, her face should be “very attractive.”

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My Husband Is Now My Wife 

 The spouses of transgender people face their own dramatic transformations — only no one celebrates them.

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From 1951, over four decades, the US government carried out almost a thousand nuclear tests at this test site, earning it the nickname of the “most bombed place on Earth”. Here, they took the crude nuclear weapons that had been dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and honed their destructive power.