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Elite Runners' Microbes Make Mice Mightier Jun 24, 2019

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Mice that were fed bacteria isolated from elite athletes logged more treadmill time than other mice that got bacteria found in yogurt.

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Science News Briefs from around the World Jun 23, 2019

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A few brief reports about international science and technology from Canada to Kenya, including one about how humans thousands of years ago in what is now Argentina butchered and presumably ate giant ground sloths.

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Antiperspirant Boosts Armpit and Toe-Web Microbial Diversity Jun 21, 2019

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Rather than wiping microbes out, antiperspirants and foot powders increased the diversity of microbial flora in armpits and between toes. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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Monkey Cousins Use Similar Calls Jun 17, 2019

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Two monkey species who last shared a common ancestor 3 million years ago have "eerily similar" alarm calls.

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How Millipedes Avoid Interspecies Sexual Slips Jun 16, 2019

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Millipedes, often blind, have come up with clever physical signals to ward off sexual advances from members of wrong species.

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You Contain Multitudes of Microplastics Jun 13, 2019

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People appear to consume between 74,000 and 121,000 microplastic particles annually, and that's probably a gross underestimate.

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A Biodegradable Label Doesn't Make It So Jun 12, 2019

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At the third Scientific American “Science on the Hill” event, “Solving the Plastic Waste Problem”, one of the issues discussed by experts on Capitol Hill was biodegradability.

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High School Cheaters Nabbed by Neural Network Jun 06, 2019

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Researchers trained a neural network to scrutinize high school essays and sniff out ghostwritten papers. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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Preserved Poop Is an Archaeological Treasure Jun 04, 2019

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Anthropologists found parasite eggs in ancient poop samples, providing a glimpse of human health as hunter-gatherers transitioned to settlements. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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Remembering Murray Gell-Mann Jun 03, 2019

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Murray Gell-Mann, 1969 Nobel Laureate in Physics who identified the quark, died May 24th.

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