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E-Blast Wednesday 09.25.13 Breaking Story Steering tech for heavy equipment saves fuel, ups efficiency Today's Video Sustainability: Water - The Ogallala Aquifer Picture of the Day An insect's toxicity ad New Today on Science360 Radio Brown University research pinpoints brainwaves associated with a sleep-enhanced learning task Latest News Playing with blocks may help children's spatial and math thinking Playing with blocks may help preschoolers develop the kinds of skills that support later learning in science, technology, engineering, and math, according to study. How biting bugs use heat sensors to hunt prey The discovery of a temperature sensor in fruit flies could help scientists understand how mosquitoes and other insects find warm-blooded targets -- like humans. Responsive interactions key to toddlers' ability to learn language According to study, when we respond to children in timely and meaningful ways, they learn -- even when that response comes from a screen. New in the Journals & Magazines SCIENCE: Why a water bridge doesn't collapse NATURE : Sleep therapy can change bad memories SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Is teaching to a student's 'learning style' a bogus idea? PHYSICS : Remote sensing of surface molecules SCIENCE NEWS : Cool idea What the Blogs Are Saying Today COOL GREEN SCIENCE - Saved by chance: The incredibly strange story of the Pere David's deer D-BRIEF - 'Ballooning' spiders fly without wind THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG - Most influential emotions on social networks revealed WIRED SCIENCE - Cuckoo finches use multiple tricks to 'pass the beak' on parenting QUEST - The Seattle seawall project: Transforming salmon habitat Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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