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E-Blast Wednesday 07.31.13 Breaking Story Mini-Monsters Of The Forest Floor Today's Video 21st Century Scientists: Malika Jefferies-EL Picture of the Day Sierra Madre Oriental New Today on Science360 Radio NSF-Funded Harvard & UIUC Researchers Demonstrate Ability To 3-D Print A Battery Latest News Researchers Overcome Technical Hurdles In Quest For Inexpensive, Durable Electronics And Solar Cells A novel technology for producing "electronic ink" could produce inexpensive electronic devices with techniques that essentially print it onto inexpensive sheets of plastic. Researchers Identify Cause Of LED 'Efficiency Droop' Researchers have discovered the mechanism behind a plague of LED light bulbs: a flaw called "efficiency droop" that causes LEDs to lose up to 20 percent of their efficiency as they are subjected to greater electrical currents. Study: Online Tools Accelerating Earthquake-Engineering Progress A new study has found that online tools, access to experimental data and other services provided through "cyberinfrastructure" are helping to accelerate progress in earthquake engineering and science. New in the Journals & Magazines PHYSICS: Testing Relativity Using Earth's Motion NEW SCIENTIST: Crocodiles May Need Their Fruity Five-A-Day PLOS BIOLOGY: A Blue Wave Of Death In C. Elegans POPULAR MECHANICS: Are Robot Warriors Finally Coming To The Battlefield? NATURE: Big Bang Light Reveals Minimum Lifetime Of Photons What the Blogs Are Saying Today ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE - Don't Read The Comments! (Why Do We Read The Online Comments When We Know They'll Be Bad?) D-BRIEF - Networked Cars Are Coming, But Their Hacks Are Already Here KRULWICH WONDERS - Mysterious Dancing Lights In Afghanistan NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE - How The World's Smallest Farmers Turned Chemists Into Food QUEST - Tough And Tasty: Recasting A Resilient Weed As A Wild Edible Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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