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E-Blast Tuesday 10.09.12 Breaking Story Ancient Carbon Resurfaces In Lakes Today's Video Birth Of A Planet Picture of the Day Tag, You're It New Today on Science360 Radio "Sea Lions Dive Deep," With NSF-Funded Researcher Birgitte McDonald At Scripps Latest News Bioengineers Introduce 'Bi-Fi' — The Biological Internet Using an innocuous bacterial virus, bioengineers have created a biological mechanism to send genetic messages from cell to cell, increasing the complexity and amount of data that can be communicated between cells. Duck-Bill Dinosaurs Had Plant-Pulverizing Teeth More Advanced Than Horses A team of paleontologists and engineers has found that duck-billed dinosaurs had an amazing capacity to chew tough and abrasive plants with grinding teeth more complex than those of cows, horses, and other well-known modern grazers. Researchers Unravel Life Cycle Of Blue-Crab Parasite Marine scientists have succeeded in a 15-year effort to unravel the life history of Hematodinium, a single-celled parasite that afflicts blue crabs and is of growing concern to aquaculture operations and wild fisheries around the world. New in the Journals & Magazines POPULAR MECHANICS: The Ultrahot Torch That Slices Through Steel DISCOVER: 100,000 Years Of Dramatic Population Changes NATURE : Mouse Stem Cells Lay Eggs PNAS: Census Of Deep Seabed Microbes NEW SCIENTIST: The Spiders Hit By Fatal Courtship Muddles What the Blogs Are Saying Today KRULWICH WONDERS - Animals Who Love To Rub Themselves With Ants. Is This Addictive? SCIENTIST AT WORK - Wagering On Waves THE ABSTRACT - Bringing Bugs Into The Classroom WIRED SCIENCE - The Lemur That Was A Fish EARTHSKY - Ship Noise Hinders Whale Communication, Say Scientists Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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