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E-Blast Friday 09.14.12 Breaking Story Study Of Giant Viruses Shakes Up Tree Of Life Today's Video Fiber Optic Cables: How They Work & How Engineers Use Them To Send Messages Picture of the Day Medano Fire In Sand Dunes National Park New Today on Science360 Radio "Full-Body Scanners & Privacy," With NSF-Funded Northeastern University Engineer Carey Rappaport Latest News Snakes Minus Birds Equals More Spiders For Guam Ecologists look for effects of bird loss caused by invasive brown treesnake on Guam. Scientists Bring Efficiency To Stem Cell Reprogramming New genetic markers identified by researchers could help make the process for reprogramming regular body cells into pluripotent stem cells more efficient. Poorest Miss Out On Benefits, Experience More Material Hardship, Since 1996 Welfare Reform Although the federal government's 1996 reform of welfare brought some improvements for the nation's poor, it also may have made extremely poor Americans worse off, new research shows. New in the Journals & Magazines SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Contaminated Fish Warnings Fail To Reach People Most At Risk NATURE : How To Boil Water Without Bubbles PHYSICS: Measuring The Smallest Trickle PNAS: Artificial Mummification In The Atacama Desert SCIENCE : Rewiring The Autistic Brain What the Blogs Are Saying Today NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE - Why Do Killer Whales Go Through Menopause? KRULWICH WONDERS - Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities And Stack Them Sideways WIRED SCIENCE - Numerical Model Of The Tarzan Swing-Jump SCIENTIST AT WORK - A 210-Million-Year-Old Puzzle EARTHSKY - Research In Africa Reveals New Species Of Monkey Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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