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The\xa0Rosetta space probe has finally arrived\xa0and is currently in orbit around the comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko! Rosetta is now officially the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet.
A\xa0previously unknown tribe of humans has emerged\xa0from the rainforest in Brazil and made contact with a settled indigenous community. They are believed to have fled illegal loggers and drug traffickers, but some have already contracted influenza.
Newly discovered\xa0crAssphage could be the most common virus in your body. Nobody has ever seen it, and we didn\u2019t even know about it until just recently.
Grizzly bears will eat an extraordinary amount of food before going into hibernation. In humans,\xa0this would be a recipe for diabetes but it isn\u2019t for the bears. Turns out there\u2019s a protein called PTEN that\u2019s responsible \u2013 and the trick is reducing its expression only in fat cells.
What do you get when two scientists sequence their gut microbiome for a whole year?\xa0An amazingly detailed dataset that documents the changes our bodies go through\xa0during illness, travel and dietary changes.
Being strangled during sex might be unfortunate, but being eaten by your mate afterwards would also be weird.\xa0Another reason to be glad you\u2019re not an octopus.