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E-Blast Tuesday 11.05.13 Breaking Story Implantable sensor paves way to long-term monitoring Today's Video The colorful chemistry of lobster shells Picture of the Day Globular star cluster NGC 1851 New Today on Science360 Radio Oct. 9 announcement of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry & reaction from a winner, past NSF grantee Arieh Warshel Latest News Synaptic transistor learns while it computes First of its kind, brain-inspired device looks toward highly efficient and fast parallel computing networks. Physicists unify the structure of scientific theories A team of physicists have figured out why science works. Or rather, they've posited a theory for why scientific theories work – a meta theory. Global warming led to dwarfism in mammals – twice Mammal body size decreased during at least two ancient global warming events, and a study suggests a similar outcome is possible in response to human-caused climate change. New in the Journals & Magazines SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Comet from the Oort Cloud careens toward the sun POPULAR SCIENCE: Friction physics reveals details of how people hauled 100-ton-plus stones to China's Forbidden City PHYSICS: A single-atom optical switch SCIENCE NEWS: Giant loner could shift idea of star formation NATURE: Linnaeus's Asian elephant was wrong species What the Blogs Are Saying Today D-BRIEF - King Tut's body spontaneously combusted EARTHSKY - Solar eclipse marked beginning of Iroquois Confederacy LAB RAT - Communication between kingdoms: the micro-organisms that live on the human body THE LOOM - Our speckled brains THOUGHTOMICS - The sexy sabercat: how the sabertooth got its teeth Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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