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E-Blast Thursday 11.01.12 Breaking Story Assembly Not Required Today's Video Chance Discoveries: Safety Glass Picture of the Day Aurora With Rainbow Colors New Today on Science360 Radio "Big Data," With NSF-Funded UCSD Researcher Larry Smarr And UC-Berkeley Researchers Deirdre Mulligan & Ken Goldberg Latest News Tabletop Fault Model Reveals Why Some Quakes Result In Faster Shaking Engineers show that the more time it takes for an earthquake fault to heal, the faster the shake it will produce when it finally ruptures. Tool Aims To Ensure Software Security Policies Reflect User Needs Researchers develop a natural language processing tool that businesses, or other customers, can use to ensure that software developers have a clear idea of the security policies to be incorporated into new software products. Study Of 20,000 Jumps Shows How A Hopping Robot Could Conserve Its Energy Scientists find that hopping robots could dramatically reduce the amount of energy they use by adopting a unique two-part "stutter jump." New in the Journals & Magazines NEW SCIENTIST: Halloween Hellmouth At Iceland Volcano SCIENCE: In Search Of Sandy's Impact On Science SCIENCE NEWS: Hunting Dark Matter With DNA NATURE: Leopard Seals Suck Up Krill Like Whales PHYSICS: Deep Molecular Cooling What the Blogs Are Saying Today EARTHSKY - Ghost Lights: Believe In Them If You Dare NOBEL INTENT - Superluminous Supernovae Spotted In The Early Universe SCIENTIST AT WORK - Preparing An Ideal Astronaut LAB RAT - The Changing Microflora Of Bacteria In The Lungs KRULWICH WONDERS - Will We "Fix" The Weather? Yes. Should We "Fix" The Weather? Hmmm Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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