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E-Blast Friday 03.15.13 Breaking Story Can Fungi Replace Plastics? Today's Video Meet Ro-Bat, The Robotic Bat Wing Picture of the Day 'Cryptic' Clams New Today on Science360 Radio 'Our Future Relationships With Robots' – Interview With NSF-Funded Illah Nourbakhsh At Carnegie Mellon Latest News Researchers Building Stronger, 'Greener' Concrete With Biofuel Byproducts Engineers are developing a mix to reduce concrete's carbon footprint and make it stronger by incorporating an innovative ingredient: biofuel byproducts. Predictability: The Brass Ring For Synthetic Biology Research group is first to unveil a package of public domain DNA sequences and statistical models that greatly increase the reliability and precision with which biological systems can be engineered. The Nose's Unheralded Neighbor A study reveals that maxillary sinuses make room for different nose shapes. New in the Journals & Magazines SCIENCE NEWS: Distant Planets' Atmospheres Revealed SCIENCE: Looking A Trilobite In The Eye PHYSICS: Noise And The Single Qubit POPULAR SCIENCE: Their Big Eyes May Have Caused Neanderthals' Demise NATURE: Early Birds Flew On Four Wings What the Blogs Are Saying Today THE CRUX - How The Aurora Borealis Nearly Started World War III OBSERVATIONS - Quasars At 50: Luminous Cosmic Beacons Remain A Puzzle NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE - Will We Ever Regenerate Limbs? GLOBE SCIENTISTS BLOG - From Lake Superior To The Mississippi River – A Renewed Commitment To Fresh Water KRULWICH WONDERS - Let's Get Literal: Calculating Pi With Pies. Actual Pies Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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