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E-Blast Friday 10.25.13 Breaking Story Physicists decode decision circuit of cancer metastasis Today's Video From bloom to book Picture of the Day Galaxy seen as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang New Today on Science360 Radio NSF-funded Carey Lisse discusses the comet ISON Latest News Study shows unprecedented warmth in Arctic Average summer temperatures in the Eastern Canadian Arctic during the last 100 years are higher now than during any century in the past 44,000 years and perhaps as long ago as 120,000 years, says study. Chemists use MRI to peek at temperatures of gases inside catalytic reactors Chemists have employed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) — a technique normally reserved for medical clinicians peering inside the human body — to better measure the temperature of gases inside a catalytic reactor. Early-life exposure of frogs to herbicide increases mortality from fungal disease The combination of the herbicide atrazine and a fungal disease is particularly deadly to frogs, according to new research. New in the Journals & Magazines PNAS: Illusory spirals and loops in crystal growth SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: How mummies lived — and died — revealed by modern medical technology SCIENCE : When the land burns, lizards thrive NEW SCIENTIST: Milky Way galaxy is fluttering like a flag NATURE: Rodent immune to scorpion venom What the Blogs Are Saying Today THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG - How to build a plant xylem water filter NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE - Humans restrain jumping DNA that chimps allow to run free NOBEL INTENT - New type of quantum excitation behaves like a solitary particle WIRED SCIENCE - Head-banging demon mole rats just want to be left alone BAD ASTRONOMY - Towering solar eruption leaves behind twisted chaos Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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