Women really do have cooties
Saturday, November 8, 2008 - 22:42
in Biology & Nature
A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates that not only do human hands harbor far higher numbers of bacteria species than previously believed, women have a significantly greater diversity of microbes on their palms than men. read more
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