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E-Blast Tuesday 12.04.12 Breaking Story Search For Life Suggests Solar Systems More Habitable Than Ours Today's Video Mentors Made The Difference: Nancy Jackson, Ph.D. Picture of the Day Artificial Nature New Today on Science360 Radio 'Fish & The Carbon Cycle,' With NSF-Funded Marine Scientist Grace Saba At Rutgers Latest News Cell Surface Transporters Exploited For Cancer Drug Delivery Certain molecules present in high concentrations on the surfaces of many cancer cells could be exploited to funnel lethal toxic molecules into the malignant cells, according to scientists. Uncovering Unique Properties In A 2-Dimensional Crystal Discovery opens up opportunities to study what physicists call "many-body interactions" and a new concept of electronics called valleytronics. Novel Antibodies For Combating Alzheimer's And Parkinson's Disease Researchers have developed antibodies that are unusually effective at preventing the formation of toxic protein particles linked to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, as well as Type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. New in the Journals & Magazines NATURE : Older People Are More Susceptible To Swindlers PHYSICS : Helium Puddles Near Absolute Zero SCIENCE : Cocoon Preserves Microbe For The Ages SCIENCE NEWS : Immune Disease An Added Blow To Fungus-Ridden Bat Populations SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: South American Cities Face Flood Risk Due To Andes Meltdown What the Blogs Are Saying Today SCIENTIST AT WORK - Malaria Or Mars? KRULWICH WONDERS - Music Video Borrows From 200-Million-Year-Old Artist And Disappears WIRED SCIENCE - Castles In Space: A 50-Year Survey Of Gravity-Assist Space Travel ICY SEAS - Shots Of Airborne Lasers At Petermann Gletscher, Greenland NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE - Pygmy Mole Crickets Leap From Water With spring-Loaded Oars On Their Legs Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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