Microbes can 'fingerprint' blowing dust

Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 18:00 in Astronomy & Space

WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say communities of soil microbes in dust spread by wind erosion can act as a "fingerprint" revealing the fugitive dust's exact point of origin.

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