WASHINGTON — The Senate is likely to vote within days on a measure that would undo net-neutrality rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2010, even though they’ve yet to go into effect.

One of the lead sponsor’s of Senate Journal Resolution 6 (.pdf), Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) said “The Internet is not broken and does not need fixing.” She said a likely vote was planned for this week.

The measure simply says that Congress “disapproves of the rule” and “such rule shall have no force or effect.”

The House passed a similar measure, but Obama has threatened to veto it....

By Michael Balter, ScienceNOW

About 25,000 years ago, humans began painting a curious creature on the walls of European caves. Among the rhinos, wild cattle, and other animals, they sketched a white horse with black spots. Although such horses are popular breeds today, scientists didn’t think they existed before humans domesticated the species about 5,000 years ago. Now, a new study of prehistoric horse DNA concludes that spotted horses did indeed roam ancient Europe, suggesting that early artists may have been reproducing what they saw rather than creating imaginary creatures.

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