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E-Blast Tuesday 06.04.13 Breaking Story A Grassy Trend In Human Ancestors' Diets Today's Video Learning From Ants: Principles of Locomotion in Confined Spaces Could Help Future Robot Teams Work Picture of the Day Star Trails Over Gemini North New Today on Science360 Radio NSF-Funded University Of Arizona Ecosystem Ecologist Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman Discusses Biosphere 2 Latest News Acidifying Oceans Could Spell Trouble For Squid Study finds that acidifying oceans could dramatically alter early development of Atlantic longfin squid. Tiger Moths: Mother Nature's Fortune Tellers Researchers have shown that a species of tiger moth can tell if an echo-locating bat is going to attack it well before the predator swoops in for the kill. Researchers Document Acceleration Of Ocean Denitrification During Deglaciation As ice sheets melted during the last ice age, oceanic oxygen levels decreased and "denitrification" accelerated by 30 to 120 percent, creating oxygen-poor marine regions and throwing the oceanic nitrogen cycle off balance. New in the Journals & Magazines POPULAR SCIENCE: How The Turtle Got Its Shell POPULAR MECHANICS: The Brain Science Behind Our Obsession With Tools PLOS: Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions In High-Diversity Ecosystems SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: New Physics Complications Lend Support To Multiverse Hypothesis PHYSICS: Topology With Liquid Crystals What the Blogs Are Saying Today BAD ASTRONOMY - Snapshot Of Lowest Mass Exoplanet Ever Directly Seen (Probably) NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE - The Females Of The Madagascar Sucker-Footed Bat Are Missing SCIENTIST AT WORK - Calls Of The Forest THE ABSTRACT - That Four-Leaf Clover You Found May Not Be A Four-Leaf Clover THE CRUX - Citizen Science Ventures Into Space Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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