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E-Blast Monday 10.15.12 Breaking Story Early-Earth Cells Modeled To Show How First Life Forms Might Have Packaged RNA Today's Video Osorb: Absorbent Nanomaterial Cleans up Toxic Water Picture of the Day Sheathbill Sunset New Today on Science360 Radio "Scientific Thinking In Young Children," With NSF-Funded UC-Berkeley Psychology Professor Alison Gopnik Latest News Scientists Uncover Diversion Of Gulf Stream Path In Late 2011 Researchers have discovered that the Gulf Stream diverged well to the north of its normal path beginning in late October 2011, causing the warmer-than-usual ocean temperatures along the New England continental shelf. Using Cell Phone Data To Curb The Spread Of Malaria Research that combines cell phone data from 15 million people in Kenya with detailed information on the regional incidence of malaria has revealed, on the largest scale so far, how human travel patterns contribute to the disease's spread. Singing Mice Show Signs Of Learning Like songbirds and humans, male mice have brain circuits and behaviors they may use to learn some of their sounds. New in the Journals & Magazines DISCOVER MAGAZINE : Notes From Earth: A Hubble Telescope Pointed Into The Ground NATURE : Stress And The Brain: Under Pressure SCIENCE NEWS : Scientists Probe Fresh Martian Meteorite NEW SCIENTIST: Existential Blow For Ghostly Quantum Supersolids SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: State Of The Earth: Still Seeking Plan A For Sustainability What the Blogs Are Saying Today QUEST - Return Of The Shorebirds WIRED SCIENCE - Models Vs. Reality: Uplift In The Altiplano-Puna Of The Central Andes NOBEL INTENT - Large Asteroid Vesta Once Had Molten Core, Magnetic Field EARTHSKY - El Niño Trying To Form, But Just Barely 80BEATS - Look At This: A Shrimp Vomits A Glowing Cloud Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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