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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Home sweet microbe: Dust in your house can predict geographic region, gender of occupants

The humble dust collecting in the average American household harbors a teeming menagerie of bacteria and fungi, and as researchers have discovered, it may be able to predict not only the geographic region of a given home, but the gender ratio of the occupants and the presence of a pet as well.

from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily http://ift.tt/1hewX8x
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