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New species of fish discovered

A not-so-cute species of fish has recently been discovered living in the rivers of Montana and Idaho.The Cedar sculpin is a relative of the freshwater sculpin. They have actually been around for quite some time and have been seen by humans before but were mistakenly believed to be the more common short head sculpin. They live at the bottom of rivers and can usually be found in cold, flowing streams. They are the favourite food of trout and bull trout who also live in the rivers, and are no longer than 15 centimetres (six inches). The species has been named the Cedar sculpin after the many Western red cedar trees that line the riverbanks where they live.

Athletes must wait for meteorite medals

Saturday's gold medal winners at the Sochi Olympics will receive extra special medals that have a small piece of the Chelyabinsk meteorite in the centre-just after the Games are over. The 10-ton meteorite lit up Russian skies one year ago, so Alexei Betekhtin, the culture minister for the Chelyabinsk region, decided to honour the event which happened to overlap with the Olympics."We will hand out medals to all the athletes who will win gold on that day, because both the meteorite and the Olympic Games are global events," Betekhtin said.

The Kenguru: Wheels For those in wheelchairs

People in wheelchairs have had to rely on their family and friends to help them get around to do everyday things. Going to the movies, getting groceries, going to work, or going out for lunch can't happen without arranging someone else to pick them up and drop them off at their destination-that's where Kenguru comes in. The Kenguru is a mini electric automobile that helps people in wheelchairs to get around town and be independent. It has one door in the rear and a ramp that drivers can wheel up to get into the car. It cost about $25,000 but buyers can get a lot of their money back through green energy tax incentives.

Cooking communities

Nothing beats a home-cooked meal; Bar Segal, Daniel Kaplansky and Zifeng Wei know that and have figured out how to make delicious home-cooked meals more accessible to those who don't fancy themselves as a chef. Eatro is a marketplace for home-made-meals that connects people with their neighbours and their different cultures. Home chefs sign up on the website and offer whatever meal they feel like making for up to $12 and Eatro takes 12 percent of the meal's selling price. There are no delivery times, only time slots where the chefs say customers can stop by and pick up their meal. If a customer does or doesn't like a chef's meal, they can leave the appropriate review on the website.

Brains see Smiley Face as a real face

What do you see when someone types ' :-) '? Do you see a colon and a bracket, or do you see a smiley face? Odds are that you see a smiley face, and that's totally normal. In fact, Australian scientists say our brains have been rewired to read smiley face emotions and react to them the same way we'd react to a real human smile! Babies aren't born with the ability to look at an emotion and associate it with an emotion, but along the road humans have learned to associate the two and to scientists, that is amazing. "Emotions are a new form of language that we're producing," said Dr. Owen Churches of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. "And to decode that language we've produced a new pattern of brain activity.