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E-Blast Monday 08.05.13 Breaking Story Study Finds Marine Life Moving Poleward Faster Than Terrestrial Counterparts In Response To Climate Change Today's Video Home Sensors Enable Seniors To Live Independently Picture of the Day Polar Bear Ancestry Traced To Ireland New Today on Science360 Radio NSF-Funded Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Discusses Space Flight Latest News Researchers Create 'Soft Robotic' Devices Using Water-Based Gels Researchers have developed a technique for creating devices out of a water-based hydrogel material that can be patterned, folded and used to manipulate objects. Geoscientists Gradually Decipher Nature's Playbook, Discover Mineral-Making Secrets Researchers have discovered that certain types of sugars may control the timing and placement of minerals that animals use to produce hard structures such as shells and exoskeletons of mollusks, lobsters, and shrimp. The When And Where Of The Y: Research On Y Chromosomes Uncovers Clues About Human Ancestry The first full-chromosome sequencing effort shows most recent male and female common ancestors lived around the same time. New in the Journals & Magazines SCIENCE: A Doppler Effect For Distant Planets SCIENCE NEWS: Evolution Of Mammalian Monogamy Remains Mysterious SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Nanothermometer Takes The Temperature Of Living Cells POPULAR SCIENCE: To Make An Unbreakable Code, Use Quantum Physics PHYSICS: Colliding Grains Make Stronger Sandstorms What the Blogs Are Saying Today THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG - The Art Of Chemistry – Electronic Visualisation WIRED SCIENCE - What's Inside: Play-Doh — It's Like Bread, But With More Amylopectin KRULWICH WONDERS - Why Dentists Should Fear Snails NOBEL INTENT - When Decisions Are Tough, It Pays To Think As A Colony THE WHY FILES - Social Network, Indian Edition Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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