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E-Blast Wednesday 10.17.12 Breaking Story In Blown-Down Forests, A Story Of Survival Today's Video Statistics & Averages Picture of the Day Researchers Find New Way To Mimic the Color And Texture Of Butterfly Wings New Today on Science360 Radio "Wild Bees & Future Of Food," With NSF-Funded UC-Berkeley Conservation Biologist Claire Kremen Latest News On The Origin Of Life's Most Crucial Isotope Nuclear physics theorists have gained new insights into a fundamental nuclear reaction that gave rise to life as we know it. Language Is Shaped By Brain's Desire For Clarity And Ease Using an artificial language in a carefully controlled laboratory experiment, cognitive scientists have found that many changes to language are simply the brain's way of ensuring that communication is as precise and concise as possible. Physicists Crack Another Piece Of The Glass Puzzle Researchers have captured the molecular-level particle motion of liquid-to-glass transition. New in the Journals & Magazines PNAS: Fine-Tuning Synthetic Gene Networks SCIENCE NEWS: Elevated Carbon Dioxide May Impair Reasoning SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Critical Carbon Capture Technology Stalled PHYSICS: Heavy Into Stability SCIENCE : U.S. Unveils A Gleaming New Weather And Climate Center What the Blogs Are Saying Today 80BEATS - The Surface Of Titan Might Feel Like A Damp Beach NOBEL INTENT - Communicating Without Memory In A Quantum System SCIENTIST AT WORK - Moonwalking On Planet Concordia WIRED SCIENCE - Paleontologists Reveal The Identity Of 'Predator X' THE ABSTRACT - Probing The Brain's Chemistry Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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