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E-Blast Monday 09.10.12 Breaking Story Precautions For Tick-Borne Disease Extend "Beyond Lyme" Today's Video Manmade "Wall of Wind" Creates Hurricane Force Winds To Test Construction Picture of the Day Titan Scorpionfish New Today on Science360 Radio "Bacterial Invisible Ink," With Past NSF Grantee & Tufts Chemist David Walt Latest News Researchers Emphasize Evaluation Of Tradeoffs In Battling Urban Heat Island Urbanization will increase average temperatures in Arizona's Sun Corridor and white roofs can combat that, but not without consequences for the region's hydroclimate. Study Suggests Bacteria Are Social Microorganisms New research shows that a few individuals in groups of closely related bacteria have the ability to produce chemical compounds that kill or slow the growth of other populations of bacteria in the environment, but not harm their own. Needle Beam Could Eliminate Signal Loss In On-Chip Optics A team of researchers have demonstrated a new type of light beam that propagates without spreading outwards, remaining very narrow and controlled along an unprecedented distance. New in the Journals & Magazines SCIENCE NEWS: Herders, Not Farmers, Built Stonehenge NATURE: Fish Trawling Reshapes Deep-Sea Canyons PLOS BIOLOGY: Smooth Muscle Tension Induces Invasive Remodeling Of The Zebrafish Intestine PHYSICS: Alphabet Waves NEW SCIENTIST: Will Computers Or Humans Fly Airliners In Formation? What the Blogs Are Saying Today KRULWICH WONDERS - Volcano Shoots Geyser Of Water Up Into Space ESCIENCECOMMONS - Psychopathic Boldness Tied To U.S. Presidential Success WIRED SCIENCE - Tiny Carboniferous Steps THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG - Aerosols, Climate Change And The Dramatic Failure Of Planck's Law SCIENTIST AT WORK - Gone Fishin' Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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