germs
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Hong Kong Public Transport Study Shows How Quickly Bacteria Travel Across A City
If you’re one of the billions of people worldwide to use mass public transport regularly, you’re sharing a lot more than a commute with your fellow passengers, suggests a new study published Tuesday in Cell Reports. You’re also sharing and swapping the teeming microbes that call our bodies home.
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This Water Bottle Filters All Germs As You Drink
Worry about dirty water when you’re travelling, biking or hiking and don’t want to fuss with a complicated, heavy filter or pollute the taste of your drinking water with chemical treatments? This new Naked Filter from Liquidity promises to remove “99.9999%” of bacteria and protozoa as you sip.
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Your Next Smartphone Screen Will Be Able To Disinfect Itself
Your phone is filthy. Anything that’s getting rubbed by your grimy little fingers on a ridiculously regular basis is going to be far from pristine. But Corning can help. Its newest revision of Gorilla Glass is not only ridiculously resilient, it also kills pesky germs all by itself.
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Everything You Need To Battle Those Terrifying Invisible Invaders: Germs
You can’t see ’em, you can’t smell ’em, and you certainly can’t feel ’em — but you just know your body and your home is crawling with microscopic invaders who’ll do everything they can to make you sick. Gerrrrrms!