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E-Blast Wednesday 11.07.12 Breaking Story Changing Climate, Not Tourism, Seems To Be Driving Decline In Chinstrap-Penguin Populations Today's Video Science Now Picture of the Day Nacreous Clouds New Today on Science360 Radio "Phone Feed," Highlighting Rice University Wireless Technology For Data-hungry Smart Devices Latest News Drought In 2001-2002 Fueled Rocky Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak Results of a new study show that episodes of reduced precipitation in the Southern Rocky Mountains, especially during the 2001-2002 drought, greatly accelerated a rise in numbers of mountain pine beetles. The overabundance is a threat to regional forests. Discovery Shows Promise In Future Speed Of Synthesizing High-Demand Nanomaterials Researchers are able synthesize transition metal oxide nanostructures instantaneously, a process that used to take days to complete. Climate Modeler Identifies Trigger for Earth's Last Big Freeze Geoscientists using new, high-resolution global ocean circulation models, report the first conclusive evidence that flood waters from the melting of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which ushered in the last major cold episode on Earth about 12,900 years ago, flowed northwest into the Arctic. New in the Journals & Magazines SCIENCE NEWS: A Little Radiation Is Good For Mice SCIENCE: Rare Whales Sighted live In New Zealand NEW SCIENTIST: Theory Of Everything Says Universe Is A Transformer NATURE: Space Telescope To Get Software Fix PHYSICS: Disorder Makes A Robust Matter-Wave Interferometer What the Blogs Are Saying Today COSMIC VARIANCE - South Pole Telescope And CMB Constraints THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG - Physicists Build Laser Tweezers Controlled With Kinect TERRA BLOG - Octo-Enchantment EARTHSKY - Orion Nebula Is A Place Where New Stars Are Born 80BEATS - Man Climbs 103 Stories With A Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Leg Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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