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• WEDNESDAY 19. JUNE, 2013
• 02:30 Don't Trust the Applause

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  Audience reaction may have little to do with the quality of the performance  

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• 02:15 Arctic Birds Have Wild Rhythms

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  Breeding birds find several ways to cope with summer's constant daylight  

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• 01:24 ScienceShot: Spider Dies From Sex

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  Males of a particular species go limp just as the deed is done  

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• 01:20 NASA Asks for Help Finding Asteroids and Capturing One

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  The space agency is reaching out to all comers to ease the challenge of fending off threatening asteroids and finding the right one to study up close  

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• 01:00 China's Supercomputer Regains No. 1 Ranking

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  New machine is part of continued push to lead the world into era of exascale computing  

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• 00:35 NIH Announces Nine Projects to Repurpose Old Drugs

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  Program touted as an early success for new translational research center  

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• TUESDAY 18. JUNE, 2013
• 21:24 Extra Sleep May Help Combat Diabetes

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  Men who caught up on sleepless nights had better response to their body's insulin  

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• 07:24 Transportation Studies and Climate Change Modeling Net 2013 Blue Planet Prizes

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  Winners are a Japanese researcher who developed a climate supercomputer and an American engineer who studies the environmental effects of transportation systems  

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• MONDAY 17. JUNE, 2013
• 23:23 Video: Cat Robot Stands and Runs, On Its Own Four Legs

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  Feline machine navigates steps without a brain  

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• 22:50 Trying to Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home

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  Familiar sights and faces can cause people to revert to their native tongue  

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• 22:10 How to Turn Your Cell Phone Into a Dolphin

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  New algorithm allows scientists to determine the shape of a room from the sounds of echoes  

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• 18:24 Chinese Academy in Climate Change Uproar

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  CAS insists translation of climate-skeptic tome was merely to enlighten its scholars to alternative viewpoints  

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• SATURDAY 15. JUNE, 2013
• 01:00 Magnet's Mississippi Journey Delayed by 1 Week

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  Bad weather pushes back Muon g-2's departure from Brookhaven  

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• 00:45 Turkish Protests Roil Academia

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  As Turkey's prime minister and protest leaders search for common ground, academics express unease about their country's direction  

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• FRIDAY 14. JUNE, 2013
• 22:40 Top Stories: Big Dogs, Big Cats, and the Future of Gene Patenting

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  Some of our favorite stories of the week  

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• 22:35 Protestors to Government: 'Save Spanish Science'

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  Researchers demonstrate against budget cuts in 19 cities  

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• 21:05 ScienceShot: Sunflowers Do the Math

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  Spiraling shapes of flowers arranged as Fibonacci numbers  

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• 01:25 Unmasking 'Invisible' Drug Trials

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  In a not-so-veiled threat, researchers warn companies to publish their drug data  

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• 01:10 Finding Less Risky Ways to Make Medical Isotopes

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  Report examines technologies that could expand isotope production without increasing nuclear weapons risks  

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• 00:40 Dogs Provide Insight Into Rare Genetic Disease

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  Deadly disorder found in both humans and Great Danes, providing clues cause and potential therapies  

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• THURSDAY 13. JUNE, 2013
• 23:25 Global Life Sciences Program Secures Financing Until 2016

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  Human Frontier Science Program funders agree to offset Japanese cutback  

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• 23:25 U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Human Gene Patents

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  But companies can patent complementary DNAs constructed in the laboratory  

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• 22:35 ScienceShot: Andromeda Chock Full of Black Holes

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  Our neighbor has more of the dark objects than any other galaxy besides our own  

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• 21:24 Podcast: The Cheetah's Secrets, Monks and Volcanoes, and Why Some People Turn to Science When They Confront Death

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  An audio roundup of some of our favorite stories of the week  

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• 21:24 ScienceShot: Getting Water to March in Single File

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  The highest ever resolution crystal structure of a membrane protein shows how water zips inside cells  

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