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E-Blast Friday 10.05.12 Breaking Story Why We Need Insects -- Even "Pesky" Ones Today's Video The Genetics Of Bees Picture of the Day Aurora Borealis Above Keweenaw Bay, Michigan New Today on Science360 Radio "Photographing Life On The Nanoscale," With NSF-Funded Scientist Felice Frankel Latest News Astronomers Discover Star Racing By Black Hole At Center Of Our Galaxy Astronomers find a remarkable star that orbits the enormous black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy in a blistering 11-and-a-half years, the shortest known orbit of any star near this black hole. The Mathematics Of Leaf Decay A mathematical model reveals commonality within the diversity of leaf decay. Dating Encounters Between Modern Humans And Neandertals To discover why Neandertals are most closely related to people outside Africa, scientists have estimated the date when Neandertals and modern Europeans last shared an ancestor. New in the Journals & Magazines SCIENCE NEWS: Mouse Stem Cells Yield Viable Eggs NATURE: Proteins Remember The Past To Predict The Future PHYSICS: Nanoweb Catches light NEW SCIENTIST: Boy Discovers Almost complete Woolly Mammoth Carcass SCIENCE: Diss Information: Is There A Way To Stop Popular Falsehoods From Morphing Into "Facts"? What the Blogs Are Saying Today QUEST - Illustrating Science: Translating Knowledge Into Pictures NOBEL INTENT - Simple Reaction Makes The Building Blocks Of A Nucleic Acid THOUGHTOMICS - The Grandmother And Her Genes: A Grandson's Perspective VISUAL SCIENCE - Mushrooms - The Green Building Material Of The Future? SCISTARTER - Become A Bat Detective Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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