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Fish have feelings, too: the inner lives of our 'underwater cousins'

Fish have feelings, too: the inner lives of our 'underwater cousins'

Jonathan Balcombe, author of What A Fish Knows, says that fish have a conscious awareness -- or "sentience" -- that allows them to experience pain, recognize individual humans and have memory.

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NASA wants you -- on Mars

NASA wants you -- on Mars

Check out this lovely gallery of NASA commissioned "recruiting" posters designed to kindle public interest in Mars. While employment opportunities on the red planet are still up in the air, the posters at least can now be downloaded for free.
by William Lager

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Google charmed by grandma's polite searches

Google charmed by grandma's polite searches

It's been a rough week in the news. So take a few minutes to consider an unusual story -- of good manners. On the Internet!

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Russia launches world's biggest, most powerful icebreaker

Russia launches world's biggest, most powerful icebreaker

The 568-foot-long Arktika is powered by two nuclear reactors and capable of breaking through ice 13 feet deep. Russia's interest in the Arctic is rising along with global temperatures.

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Scientists say they've unearthed a completely new kind of meteorite

Scientists say they've unearthed a completely new kind of meteorite

Scientists say that in a Swedish quarry, they've uncovered a meteorite unique among the 50,000 known on Earth today. They say it could hold clues about the history of the solar system.

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U.S. appeals court holds up net neutrality rules in full

U.S. appeals court holds up net neutrality rules in full

The idea of net neutrality is that phone and cable companies should treat all of the traffic on their networks equally. The court rejected a lawsuit by telecom, cable and wireless industry associations against the new FCC rules.
by Alina Selyukh

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Kerri Miller's 'Thread' event: science writer Mary Roach

MPR's Kerri Miller hosts science writer Mary Roach for the latest edition of the 'Thread' series. Roach is the author of books with such intriguing titles as "Stiff," "Spook" and "Gulp." Her newest book is "Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans At War."

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Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash

Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash

The per-share price of $196 equals $26.2 billion -- or to put it in terms runners will understand, roughly $1 billion for each mile of a marathon.
by Alina Selyukh

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Hello, nihonium: Scientists name 4 new elements on the periodic table

Hello, nihonium: Scientists name 4 new elements on the periodic table

The new superheavy, radioactive elements were added to the periodic table last year but given temporary and unremarkable names: ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctoium.

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Fossils suggest island life shrank our 'Hobbit' relatives

Fossils suggest island life shrank our 'Hobbit' relatives

Scientists say tiny bones dating back 700,000 years on the Indonesian island of Flores shine new light on how these mysterious, 3-foot-tall creatures got that way.
by Christopher Joyce

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