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We summarize the week's science breakthroughs every Thursday.

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    Batteries not included

    Researchers have developed a sensor that, when flexed, generates enough charge to send wireless signals.

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    New technique spins superlong nanowires

    Made from any number of materials, fibers are millionths of a millimeter across and kilometers long.

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    Social Networks

    Power networks in Congress, Twitter’s crystal ball and iPhone contagion in news from an MIT workshop on information in social media.

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    Information flow can reveal dirty deeds

    An analysis of Enron e-mails reveals that corrupt networks have a distinctive shape.

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    Nuclear energy: As Germany goes…

    The German government surprised many energy analysts May 30, with its pledge to phase out use of nuclear power. What makes the announcement particularly noteworthy is that this government is not offering to walk away from a bit player. Nuclear power currently supplies almost one-quarter of that nation’s electrical energy — more than its share in the United States.

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    Cans bring BPA to dinner, FDA confirms

    Federal chemists have confirmed what everyone had expected: that if a bisphenol-A-based resin is used to line most food cans, there’s a high likelihood the contents of those cans will contain at least traces of BPA.

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    Nanotubes coming to a screen near you

    New technology promises brighter, bigger display screens that use less energy.

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    Robot based on cartwheeling caterpillars

    GoQBot curls itself up and takes off spinning.

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    Fishy fat from soy is headed for U.S. dinner tables

    Most people have heard about omega-3 fatty acids, the primary constituents of fish oil. Stearidonic acid, one of those omega-3s, is hardly a household term. But it should become one, researchers argued this week at the 2011 Experimental Biology meeting.

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    U.S. network detects Fukushima plume

    Traces of radioactivity attributable to the earthquake-damaged Fukushima reactor complex in Japan have reached the West Coast of the United States.

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    Chernobyl’s lessons for Japan

    Radioactive iodine released by the Chernobyl nuclear accident has left a legacy of thyroid cancers among downwinders — one that shows no sign of diminishing. The new data also point to what could be in store if conditions at Japan’s troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power complex continue to sour.

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    Radiation: Japan’s third crisis

    As if the magnitude-9 earthquake on March 11 and killer tsunami weren’t enough, a new round of aftershocks — psychological ones over fear of radiation — are rocking Japan and its neighbors.

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