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E-Blast Tuesday 12.10.13 Breaking Story Researchers develop system for assessing pollinator effectiveness Today's Video Polar ice and engineering: Drilling back through time Picture of the Day Twisting and untwisting crystals New Today on Science360 Radio NSF-funded Mary Cummings at MIT discusses drones, and more Latest News Harvesting electricity: Triboelectric generators capture wasted power A group of scientists is developing a family of power generators that take advantage of the triboelectric effect to produce small amounts of electricity for portable devices and sensors. Awkward Facebook encounters Depending on who you are and to whom you allow access to your Facebook page, embarrassing posts cause certain people more anguish than others, new study finds. Remember lots of passwords with this trick A memory scheme lets people create 100 or more passwords by remembering—and regularly rehearsing—a few one-sentence stories. New in the Journals & Magazines POPULAR MECHANICS: Curiosity finds an ancient Martian lake that could have supported life NATURE: Earth science: Under the volcano SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Strategies for aging vary widely across 46 species PHYSICS: What can we say about a photon's past? SCIENCE NEWS: Brain chip enables injured rats to control movements What the Blogs Are Saying Today QUEST - How people drove an evolution in cliff swallows THE LOOM - An ancient, mysterious scrap of human DNA SCILOGS - How Google Earth helped find Mozambique's lost forest of Mount Mabu WIRED SCIENCE - Brain stimulation may induce the human will to persevere ESCIENCECOMMONS - Multi-dog study points to canine brain's reward center Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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