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E-Blast Wednesday 07.24.13 Breaking Story Perfecting Digital Imaging Today's Video Sustainability: Water - Dead Trees & Dirty Water In The Rockies Picture of the Day Lunar Eclipse, Riga, Latvia New Today on Science360 Radio NSF-Funded CU Scientist Kristine Larson Uses GPS To Track Volcanic Ash Clouds Latest News Oldest European Fort In The Inland US Discovered In Appalachians The remains of the earliest European fort in the interior of what is now the United States have been discovered by a team of archaeologists, providing new insight into the start of the U.S. colonial era. Evolution Picks Up Hitchhikers In a twist on "survival of the fittest," researchers have discovered that evolution is driven not by a single beneficial mutation but rather by a group of mutations, including ones called "genetic hitchhikers" that are simply along for the ride. Discovery Of Rare Decay Narrows Space For New Physics After a quarter of a century of searching, physicists have discovered a rare particle decay that gives them an indirect way to test models of new physics. New in the Journals & Magazines POPULAR MECHANICS: Giant Mirrors To Light Up One Dark Norwegian Town SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Singapore Bus Study Reveals Hidden Social Networks POPULAR SCIENCE: MIT Computer Software Makes The Internet 3 Times Faster PHYSICS: What Are The Resolution Limits In Electron Microscopes? NATURE: Weeds Warrant Urgent Conservation What the Blogs Are Saying Today GENE EXPRESSION - Where The Oldest Of The Old Are No More, And Are THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG - Physicists Detect Radio Waves With Light PLOS BLOGS - What Early Neolithic People Left Behind: Levantine Arrowheads Found In Saudi Arabia THE ABSTRACT - Coastal Upwelling Linked To Upsurge In Algal Toxicity EARTHSKY - Waiting For Comet ISON Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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