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E-Blast Wednesday 02.20.13 Breaking Story Ancient Fossilized Sea Creatures Yield Oldest Biomolecules Isolated Directly From A Fossil Today's Video Wearable Robot Helps Paraplegics Walk Picture of the Day Nature's Little Engineer New Today on Science360 Radio 'Nerve Regeneration,' With NSF-Funded Christine Schmidt At The University Texas, Austin Latest News To Trap A Rainbow, Slow Down Light A new material slows down light and captures a wide range of wavelengths in different frequencies, opening new possibilities in solar energy, military technology and other fields of research. Lake-Effect Snow Sometimes Needs Mountains Researchers have used computer simulations to show that the snow-producing "lake effect" isn't always enough to cause heavy snowfall, but that mountains or other surrounding topography sometimes are necessary too. Material Interface Improves Functioning Of Non-Silicon-Based Electronic Devices Researchers have designed a special material interface that has been shown to add to and to improve the functioning of non-silicon-based electronic devices, such as those used in certain kinds of random access memory. New in the Journals & Magazines NEW SCIENTIST: Huge Telescopes Could Spy Alien Oxygen PHYSICS : Little Earthquakes In The Lab NATURE : Eco-Engineering: Living In A Materials World SCIENCE: Have We Been Miscounting Calories? SCIENCE NEWS : Bird, Human Tweets Come From Similar Parts Of The Brain What the Blogs Are Saying Today 80BEATS - Ancient Tooth Plaque Reveals Dietary Decline DEEP-SEA NEWS - Exaltation To Extinction For Sawfishes WIRED SCIENCE - Why Does A Meteor Explode In The Air? LAELAPS - S Is For Segisaurus NOBEL INTENT - Envisioning The Urban Skyscraper Of 2050 Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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