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E-Blast Thursday 11.21.13 Breaking Story Researchers break theoretical time barrier on bouncing droplets Today's Video Firefly mission to study lightning Picture of the Day Grayleaf willow New Today on Science360 Radio NSF-funded marine ecologist Mark Bertness discusses marsh die-off Latest News Scientists brave Old Man Winter to dig out secrets of lake-effect snows This winter, researchers of severe storms will be watching for the rare weather event known as "thundersnow" that occurs during lake-effect storms around the Great Lakes. Invasive sparrows' immune cells sharpen as they spread Evolutionary biologists have found that adjustments in the immune system may help house sparrows, one of the world's most common bird species, thrive in new areas. Technique controls dimensions of gold nanorods while manufacturing on a large scale Researchers can now efficiently produce nanoscale gold rods in large quantities while simultaneously controlling the dimensions of the nanorods and their optical properties. New in the Journals & Magazines POPULAR SCIENCE: How scientists preserve Lincoln's original Gettysburg Address manuscripts SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: New bacterial life-form discovered in NASA and ESA spacecraft clean rooms POPULAR MECHANICS: November tornadoes are more common than you think NATURE: 'Solar-powered' sea slugs can survive in the dark PLOS: From complex behavior to new drugs: Chemoinformatics shows the way What the Blogs Are Saying Today D-BRIEF - Why men have bigger noses than women ESCIENCECOMMONS - What a big momma alligator in her burrow tells us about dinosaurs NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE - The bacteria that absorbed mammoth DNA THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG - How metamaterials could hold the key to high temperature superconductivity COOL GREEN SCIENCE - Theodore Roosevelt: The birding citizen-scientist-in-chief Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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