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• Those funky cheese smells allow microbes to 'talk' to and feed each other
• Two planets around a red dwarf
• Zeptoseconds: New world record in short time measurement
• Ultrafast camera films 3-D movies at 100 billion frames per second
• Fossil footprints tell story of prehistoric parent's journey
• A billion tiny pendulums could detect the universe's missing mass
• World first study shows that some microorganisms can bend the rules of evolution

Those funky cheese smells allow microbes to 'talk' to and feed each other Posted: 16 Oct 2020 01:43 PM PDT Researchers found that bacteria essential to ripening cheese can sense and respond to compounds produced by fungi in the rind and released into the air, enhancing the growth of some species of bacteria over others. The make-up of the cheese microbiome is critical to flavor and quality of the cheese.

Two planets around a red dwarf Posted: 16 Oct 2020 08:28 AM PDT Astronomers have detected two exoplanets orbiting the star TOI-1266. The telescope thus demonstrates its high precision and takes an important step in the quest of finding potentially habitable worlds.

Zeptoseconds: New world record in short time measurement Posted: 16 Oct 2020 06:02 AM PDT In the global race to measure ever shorter time spans, physicists have now measured a process that lies within the realm of zeptoseconds for the first time: the propagation of light within a molecule. A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second.

Ultrafast camera films 3-D movies at 100 billion frames per second Posted: 16 Oct 2020 06:02 AM PDT New camera technology captures ultrafast video in three dimensions and may help solve some scientific mysteries.

Fossil footprints tell story of prehistoric parent's journey Posted: 14 Oct 2020 02:13 PM PDT Hungry giant predators, treacherous mud and a tired, probably cranky toddler -- more than 10,000 years ago, that was the stuff of every parent's nightmare. Evidence of that type of frightening trek was recently uncovered, and at nearly a mile it is the longest known trackway of early-human footprints ever found.

A billion tiny pendulums could detect the universe's missing mass Posted: 14 Oct 2020 01:05 PM PDT Researchers have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter, the cosmos' mystery material that has eluded detection for decades.

World first study shows that some microorganisms can bend the rules of evolution Posted: 14 Oct 2020 08:46 AM PDT The dominant thinking in evolution focuses on inheritance between parent and offspring - or 'vertical gene transfer (VGT)'. But now scientists are paying more attention to 'horizontal gene transfer (HGT)': the transmission of DNA other than from parent to offspring, as this transfer can tell us about the evolution of a number of other organisms such as bacteria. It can also help us to better understand antibiotic resistance.

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