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  NASA's Cassini Sees Forces Controlling Enceladus Jets

  July 31, 2013 — The intensity of the jets of water ice and organic particles that shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus depends on the moon's proximity to the ringed planet, according to data obtained by NASA's ... > full story
• Volcanoes
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  'Highway from Hell' Fueled Costa Rican Volcano

  July 31, 2013 — Scientists suggest that the 1960s eruption of Costa Rica's largest stratovolcano was triggered by magma rising from the mantle over a few short months, rather than thousands of years or more, as many ... > full story
• Birds
  Bird Flu Research
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  Bird Brains Predate Birds Themselves: 'Flight-Ready' Brain Was Present in Some Non-Avian Dinosaurs, CT Scans Indicate

  July 31, 2013 — New research provides evidence that dinosaurs evolved the brainpower necessary for flight well before they actually took to the air as birds. Based on computed tomographic scans, the study takes a ... > full story
• Prostate Cancer
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  Digest This: Cure for Cancer May Live in Our Intestines

  July 31, 2013 — Treating a cancerous tumor is like watering a houseplant with a fire hose -- too much water kills the plant, just as too much chemotherapy and radiation kills the patient before it kills the tumor. ... > full story
• Fish
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  Robots Strike Fear in the Hearts of Fish: Anxious Zebrafish Help Researchers Understand How Alcohol Affects Fear

  July 31, 2013 — The latest in a series of experiments testing the ability of robots to influence live animals shows that bio-inspired robots can not only elicit fear in zebrafish, but that this reaction can be ... > full story
• Organic Chemistry
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  Physicists Discover Theoretical Possibility of Large, Hollow Magnetic Cage Molecules

  July 31, 2013 — Researchers have discovered, in theory, the possibility of creating large, hollow magnetic cage molecules that could one day be used in medicine as a drug delivery system to non-invasively treat ... > full story
• Technology
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  Guided Growth of Nanowires Leads to Self-Integrated Circuits

  July 31, 2013 — Teaching nanowires self-control from the outset enabled scientists to produce complex electronic ... > full story
• Lung Cancer
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  New Protein Discovered With Vast Potential for Treatment of Cancer and Other Diseases

  July 31, 2013 — In cancer research, discovering a new protein that plays a role in cancer is like finding a key and a treasure map: follow the clues and eventually there could be a big reward. At least that's the ... > full story
• Social Psychology
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  By Tracking Maggots' Food Choices, Scientists Open Significant New Window Into Human Learning

  July 31, 2013 — The larva of the fruit fly is helping scientists understand the way humans learn information from each other. Fruit flies have long served as models for studying behavior, but new findings show their ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Nature
   
  

  Polar Ecosystems Acutely Vulnerable to Sunlight-Driven Tipping Points

  July 31, 2013 — Slight changes in the timing of the annual loss of sea-ice in polar regions could have dire consequences for polar ecosystems, by allowing a lot more sunlight to reach the sea floor. The research ... > full story

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