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E-Blast Monday 08.20.12   Breaking Story Artificial Intelligence Helps Detect Subtle Differences In Mutant Worms   Today's Video Chemistry Of Salt (NaCl)   Picture of the Day Sequencing Choanoflagellates   New Today on Science360 Radio "A Martian Curiosity," With Past NSF Awardee John Grotzinger, Mars Science Lab Project Leader   Latest News Two New Owls Discovered In The Philippines A team of researchers has confirmed the existence of two new species of owls that avoided recognition in the past because of their complex variation in appearance and unique vocalizations. Citizens Are Better At Picking Endangered Species A recent study bolsters the need to keep the public highly involved in selecting threatened species. Magnetic Turbulence Trumps Collisions To Heat Solar Wind Physicists have provided significant insight into how the solar wind that rushes outwards from the Sun heats up as it expands beyond our solar system when it should not. New in the Journals & Magazines POPULAR MECHANICS: The Tech We'll Need To Mine Asteroids USA TODAY: Chameleon Robot Changes Colors On Command PNAS: Hurricane Winds And Offshore Wind Energy NATURE : Sun Stays Nearly Spherical, Even When It Freaks Out NEW SCIENTIST: Robot Hand For Bomb Disposal Lets Its Fingers Fall Off   What the Blogs Are Saying Today THE LOOM - Want To Get 70 Billion Copies Of Your Book In Print? Print It In DNA EARTHSKY - American Eels Benefit From Dam Removal In Virginia THE WHY FILES - Light At Night: Mixed Blessing! WIRED SCIENCE - Minor Eruption From The Grozny Group In The Kuril Islands ESCIENCECOMMONS - Behaviors Of Tiniest Water Droplets Revealed Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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