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  Fossil Ink Sacs Yield Pigment

  Still soft ink sacs from 160-million-year-old squidlike animals have yielded pigment matching that of modern cuttlefish.

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  Killer Mice Gobbling Up Rare Birds

  Oversize house mice are consuming millions of endangered Atlantic petrels on the bird's only known breeding area, a new study confirms.

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  New Solar Eclipse Pictures

  See stunning images of the annular eclipse that created a "ring of fire" enjoyed by millions of sky-watchers in Asia and the U.S. West.

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  SpaceX Aborts Falcon 9 Launch

  An engine problem caused the rocket to automatically abort seconds before liftoff. Mission managers now hope to try again Tuesday.

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  Harnessing Pedestrian Power

  In areas with high foot traffic, special flooring may prove that the answer to meeting energy demand lies right beneath our feet.

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  Space Pictures This Week

  Stars whirl in a psychedelic sky, NASA spies a ghostly eye, a cloud-stained moon rises, and more in the week's best space pictures.

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  Measuring Impact of Amazon Highway

  Scientists deploy "leaf packs" to survey threatened water quality in Peru.

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  Asteroid to Smash Satellites?

  The newfound space rock 2012 DA14 will pass so close to Earth in February that it could hit a communications satellite, scientists say.

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  Slow-Motion Life Discovered

  Buried for 86 million years, a bacterial community lives so sluggishly it's still surviving on a "lunch box" from dino days, a new study says.

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  Shining a Light on Stressed Resources

  Executives gathered in Rotterdam Wednesday at a business forum focused on the linked stresses that the planet faces over water, food, and energy.