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Mars scientists know the importance of perseverance. given the setbacks. That’s especially true of the quest to retrieve samples from the Red Planet.

Archaeologists and explorers have found tons of super cool stuff in the jungle, and seeing it for the first time? That had to be a case of not believing your eyes. Heck, some of this stuff is still hard to believe — but they’re all very real. Here are some fascinating discoveries made in the jungle.

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Selective and neutral forces shape human microbiota assembly in early life. The Tsimane are an indigenous Bolivian population with infant care-associated behaviors predicted to increase mother-infant microbial dispersal. Here, we characterize microbial community assembly in 47 infant-mother pairs from six Tsimane villages, using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of longitudinal stool and tongue swab samples. We find that infant consumption of dairy products, vegetables, and chicha (a fermented drink inoculated with oral microbes) is associated with stool microbiota composition. In stool and tongue samples, microbes shared between mothers and infants are more abundant than non-shared microbes. Using a neutral model of community assembly, we find that neutral processes alone explain the prevalence of 79% of infant-colonizing microbes, but explain microbial prevalence less well in adults from river villages with more regular access to markets. Our results underscore the importance of neutral forces during microbiota assembly. Changing lifestyle factors may alter traditional modes of microbiota assembly by decreasing the role of neutral processes. Selective and neutral forces shape human microbiota assembly in early life. Here, Sprockett et al. study microbial community assembly in 47 infant-mother pairs from the Tsimane, an indigenous Bolivian population, highlighting the importance of neutral forces during microbiota assembly.

Drug discovery still poses difficulties, but some of the toil is shifting to artificial intelligence and robotic systems. Also, some tasks can be eased by using clever mass spectrometry and histological techniques.

Rogers, 35, of Bardstown, was reported missing by her mother July 5, 2015, two days after she was last seen alive. Skeletal remains were discovered July 23 in a washed-out creek bank about 4 miles from where the missing mother was last seen alive, though they had not been identified as of Friday.

NASA will attempt to search for signs of life in an ancient lakebed once believed to hold water and, for the first time, fly a helicopter on another planet.