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E-Blast Friday 11.09.12 Breaking Story Coral Reef 911: Corals Attacked By Toxic Seaweed Use Chemical Signals To Summon Help Today's Video Biotoxins: Using Venom From Deadly Snails To Kill Pain Picture of the Day Antarctic Jellyfish New Today on Science360 Radio 'Fractals: Art, Science, Math & Culture' - NSF-Funded Researchers Discuss The Power Of Fractals Latest News Researchers Find Linkages Between Climate Change And Political, Human Impacts Among Ancient Maya Researchers have compiled a precisely dated, high-resolution climate record of 2,000 years that shows how Maya political systems developed and disintegrated in response to climate change. Despite Their Thick Skins, Alligators And Crocodiles Are Surprisingly Touchy Crocodiles' and alligators' sense of touch is one of the most acute in the animal kingdom, researchers find. Habitable Zone Super-Earth Found In Exosolar System Astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth in the habitable zone, where liquid water and a stable atmosphere could reside, around the nearby star HD 40307. New in the Journals & Magazines SCIENCE NEWS: Hydrogen Fuel Edges A Step Closer NATURE: Wrens Teach Their Eggs To Sing SCIENCE: Early Humans Handed Down Toolmaking Tech PHYSICS: 0 + 0 > 0 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Lab-Made Droplets Move Themselves Continuously Without External Force What the Blogs Are Saying Today QUEST - Tracing The Origins Of The Durian's Stench SOUTHERN FRIED SCIENCE - How To Make A Pretty Map THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG - Entanglement Makes Quantum Batteries Almost Perfect, Say Theorists WIRED SCIENCE - Smilodon The Vampire THE ABSTRACT - Stick It To Cankerworms Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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