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• Oldest known squawk box suggests dinosaurs likely did not sing
• Soft robots that mimic human muscles
• Tatooine worlds orbiting two suns often survive violent escapades of aging stars
• From unknown to beardog: Findings rescue fossils from 'trashbin' genus
• How this Martian moon became the 'Death Star'
• Cosmological mystery solved by largest ever map of voids and superclusters

Oldest known squawk box suggests dinosaurs likely did not sing Posted: 12 Oct 2016 10:42 AM PDT The oldest known vocal organ of a bird has been found in an Antarctic fossil of a relative of ducks and geese that lived more than 66 million years ago during the age of dinosaurs.

Soft robots that mimic human muscles Posted: 12 Oct 2016 10:31 AM PDT Robots are usually expected to be rigid, fast and efficient. But researchers have turned that notion on its head with their soft robots.

Tatooine worlds orbiting two suns often survive violent escapades of aging stars Posted: 12 Oct 2016 09:12 AM PDT Planets that revolve around two suns may surprisingly survive the violent late stages of the stars' lives, according to new research. The finding is surprising because planets orbiting close to a single sun, like Mercury and Venus in our solar system, would be destroyed when the aging star swells into a red giant.

From unknown to beardog: Findings rescue fossils from 'trashbin' genus Posted: 12 Oct 2016 07:26 AM PDT A new study identifies two fossils previously thought to be generic carnivorans (a large, diverse order of mammals) as some of the earliest known members of the beardog family. These fossils are from animals estimated to be no larger than about five pounds, roughly the size of a Chihuahua and much smaller than formidable descendants that would later evolve.

How this Martian moon became the 'Death Star' Posted: 12 Oct 2016 06:59 AM PDT Researchers have demonstrated for the first time how an asteroid or comet could have caused a mega crater on Mars' largest moon Phobos -- which resembles the Death Star from the film "Star Wars" -- without completely destroying the satellite.

Cosmological mystery solved by largest ever map of voids and superclusters Posted: 12 Oct 2016 06:58 AM PDT Astrophysicists have created the largest ever map of voids and superclusters in the Universe, which helps solve a long-standing cosmological mystery.

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