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E-Blast Wednesday 08.15.12 Breaking Story How Do They Do It? Predictions Are In For Arctic Sea Ice Low Point Today's Video Recipe For Scientific Revolution Picture of the Day The Remipede New Today on Science360 Radio "Restoring Scarred Vocal Cords," With NSF-funded Chemical Engineer Robert Langer At MIT Latest News Hurricanes Can Be 50 Percent Stronger If Passing Over Fresh Water, Says Study If a hurricane's path carries it over large areas of fresh water, it will potentially intensify 50 percent faster than those that do not pass over such regions. Major Advance In Generating Electricity From Wastewater Engineers make a breakthrough in the performance of microbial fuel cells that can produce electricity directly from wastewater. Plants Exhibit A Wide Range Of Mechanical Properties, Engineers Find Biological structures may help engineers design new materials. New in the Journals & Magazines SCIENCE NEWS: Molecules Get A Big Chill SCIENCE: Generation Gaps Suggest Ancient Human-ape Split PHYSICS: Bringing The Sun Down To Earth NATURE: Prosthetic Retina Helps To Restore Sight In Mice NEW SCIENTIST: Curiosity To Earth: Look! Me On Mars What the Blogs Are Saying Today DUKE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH BLOG - A Second Crack At The Nature Of Glass BAD ASTRONOMY - What If All The Kepler Exoplanet Candidates Orbited One Star? ARMED WITH SCIENCE - Defending Against Unseen Enemies LAB RAT - Fungi That Steal Genes From Bacteria NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE - Why Did People Start Mummifying Their Dead In The Driest Place On Earth? Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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