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E-Blast Wednesday 12.19.12 Breaking Story Smart-Phone-based Senors Allow Users To Monitor Their Exposer To Pollution Today's Video Corn Picture of the Day Still Life: Five Glass Surfaces On A Tabletop New Today on Science360 Radio 'Catalytic Converted' – Using Ordinary Iron As Substitute Catalyst Latest News Study Of Pipestone Artifacts Overturns A Century-Old Assumption Archaeologists discovered that pipestone pipes buried roughly 2,100 years ago in southeast Ohio came from stone gathered in northern Illinois. Using Liquid Metal to Create Wires That Stretch Eight Times Their Original Length Researchers have created conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functioning. Scientists Decode Three Bacterial Strains Common to Grapevines and Sugarcane Scientists have published the whole genome sequence of bacteria associated with Jamaican sugarcane and Riesling grapevines. New in the Journals & Magazines SCIENCE NEWS: Heart Telltale POPULAR SCIENCE: Robots The Size Of Ping Pong Balls Can Swarm To Form A Smart 'Liquid' NATURE: The Maths Of The Pop-Up Tent SCIENCE: Orangutans Have A Big Idea NEW SCIENTIST: Ancient City Of Troy Rebranded Itself After War What the Blogs Are Saying Today KRULWICH WONDERS - This Should Be A Hit In Texas: Puddle Of Oil Turns Into A Christmas Tree SCILOGS - The Costs Of Bad Science Communication PLUGGED IN - Are Microgrids The Key To Energy Security THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG - Three Habitable Zone Planets Discovered Around One Red Dwarf THE LOOM - When You Swallow A Grenade Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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