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Making the Most of Broadcast Media -Tim Miller, Spoken Science-
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Seasonal Flows on Warm Martian Slopes Water probably flowed across ancient Mars, but whether it ever exists as a liquid on the surface today remains debatable.
Scientists Find Signs Water Is Flowing on Mars: Shifting dark streaks on the surface of Mars are signs that water is flowing there today, scientists said Thursday.
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News Making it News: • Lead With Impact • The Five Ws: Why, Who, What, When, Where • Emphasize the New • Avoid Technical Terminology (max: 1) • Avoid Numbers (max: 2) • Make Declarative Statements
News Talking Points: • The Main Ideas • No more than 2-3 sentences in length • Focus on Impacts • Make Qualitative Statements • Find and Use Analogy
Science 18 November 2011: • Vol. 334 no. 6058 pp. 962-965 • DOI: 10.1126/science.1211649 • REPORT • Ultralight Metallic Microlattices • T. A. Schaedler1,*, A. J. Jacobsen1, A. Torrents2, A. E. Sorensen1, J. Lian3, J. R. Greer3,L. Valdevit2,W. B. Carter1
Fig. 1 Design, processing, and cellular architecture of ultralight microlattices. T A Schaedler et al. Science 2011;334:962-965 Published by AAAS
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