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E-Blast Friday 03.29.13 Breaking Story Researchers Show That Stem Cell Fate Depends On 'Grip' Today's Video Melting Mountain Glaciers Picture of the Day NSF-Supported Blue Waters, One Of The World's Most Powerful Computers, Is Open For Research New Today on Science360 Radio 'Blue Waters: Sustained Power And Storage To Address Today's Research Needs,' Interview With Thom Dunning, Director Of The NCSA At The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Latest News Theory And Practice Key To Optimized Broadband, Low-Loss Optical Metamaterials Theoretical and practical electrical engineers join forces to design optical metamaterials that have easily manufactured custom applications. Better Than X-Rays: A More Powerful Terahertz Imaging System An engineering research team has developed a laser-powered terahertz source and detector system that transmits with 50 times more power and receives with 30 times more sensitivity than existing technologies. Even Graphene Has Weak Spots Graphene has become famous for its extraordinary strength, but less-than-perfect sheets of the material show unexpected weakness. New in the Journals & Magazines PHYSICS: Swimming Into The Light SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: First Mini-Supernovas Discovered PLOS: Caring For Offspring In A World Of Cheats NEW SCIENTIST: Crowd-Sensing Apps Tap Every Stranger's Eyes And Ears POPULAR SCIENCE: Scientists Engineer Extreme Microorganisms To Make Fuel From Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide What the Blogs Are Saying Today DEEP-SEA NEWS - Is Marianas Trench A Lifeless Void? SCILOGS - Rain Clouds: From Dust To Lawn VISUAL SCIENCE - Dark Life Beneath The Ocean's Crust LAELAPS - Peeling A Fish From Stone BAD ASTRONOMY - The Dark, Dusty Graves Of The GRAIL Spacecraft Science360 Network: News Radio Video iPad

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