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People wearing different types of black and white clothes sit and stand among orange and yellow seats on the New York subway

New research can ‘fingerprint’ a city’s ecosystem to better understand the microbes within it

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Studies found that cities closer to the ocean have more marine microbes within their transit systems, while those near parks have more plant microbes.

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Re-evaluating Provisional Reconstruction Teams and the strategy in Afghanistan

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