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Oldest avian voice box suggests quacking sounds filled the air during the age of dinosaurs

We don't know how dinosaurs sounded like but I'll tell you this much: they didn't honk.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Bob Dylan for poems on music

He said "it ain't me babe" -- but the committee proved him wrong.

Greek arts may have led to the creation of the Terracotta Army in ancient China

An army made to last forever.

Marilize Legajuana: most Americans support lifting cannabis ban. Only a decade ago the reverse was true

It's high time we made pot legal, say most Americans.

Hundreds of prehistoric human footprints found near African volcano tell unique story

A prehistoric walk in the park

Scientists find new dwarf planet in our solar system

Astronomers have found a cosmic friend for Pluto.

Proxima Centauri is more like Earth than we thought, might host habitable planet

It's a star party.

Google asks Pixar, The Onion writers to make its helper more human-like

Can't wait to see what they come up with.

No, Baby Boomers don't work harder than X-ers, Y-ers or Millennials. Work is just as hard for everyone

Old or young, there's not much difference in work ethic.

Ancient stone-carved Greek lease document found in Turkey

Nothing more binding than a document set in stone.

TripAdvisor bans ticket sales to attractions which include wild animal contact

It's a good move, but there's still much to be done.

New paper finds WO virus has stolen the Black Widow's venom gene

One of the most successful bacteria species on Earth is now hunted by venom-wielding-viruses.

Some Tibetan asses employ sneaky tactics to sweep away females from other males

Watch out, guys, these are real asses!

Human-driven global warming responsible for half of burned forests in the Western U.S.

The planet is on fire.

New exoskeleton helps disabled people get back on their feet

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the future is here.

NASA rover will investigate liquid-carved gully on Mars

The little rover that could.

The imminent self-driving car revolution might the best thing to happen to motorcyclists

These promise safer roads for everyone, but bikers are expected to benefit the most.

Ancient 'bear dog' species found by accident in museum collection from Chicago

They looked far less fearsome than their name suggests, though.

ESA transmits ExoMars' landing commands, eagerly awaits the event

After 8 months in space, ESA's crafts are approaching the martian surface.

Elon Musk schools CEO of biggest coal producing company in the U.S. after calling Tesla a 'fraud'

Father future vs Grandpa pee-in-his-pants past.

Mars-bound astronauts face risk of dementia from brain damaging cosmic rays

Talk about a space headache.

UK successfully transmits data via the national electricity grid, in a global premiere

Smart grids, smart cities.

Hurricane Matthews exposed a trove of Civil War cannonballs in South Carolina

Oldies but still dangerous.

Training men how to read women might help curb sexually aggressive behaviour

There might be a way to help alpha males understand when women are interested.

African study wants to track half a million people for five years

South Africa has announced plans for what will be the continent's largest study.

Watch all the volcanoes and earthquakes since 1960 hit around the world in one app

A stunning app put together by Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Project.

When mice 'sing' they produce ultrasounds we've only seen in jet engines

Until recently it wasn't clear how mice were able to 'sing' their high-pitched tunes.

Jupiter's spooky sounds: Astronauts capture sound emissions from the gas giant

Jupiter's getting ready for Halloween.

Newly-discovered fault in San Andreas may explain geologic mysteries

It might be a good thing... but we're not sure yet.

Elephants walk on their tip-toes and it's literally killing them in captivity

Elephants don't walk on high heels, but they act like they do nevertheless.

Silkworms spin super silk after eating carbon nanotubes and graphene

Worms + graphene = great silk.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to duo of contract theoreticians

Sign at the bottom for Prize.

Modern humans lost some of their smoke-resistance genes and we don't know why

So remember, don't smoke kids.

Some birds play tunes not all that different from jazz musicians

Humans were by no means the first to evolve musicality.

Scientists coax mice with injured spinal cords to regrow nerve fibers, something deemed impossible not too long ago

With the help of a novel drug therapy, mice with spinal cord damage showed nerve cell regeneration at the injured site.

How the brain makes drinking water feel like a pain once you're hydrated

Drinks for the thirsty, gag reflex for the over-hydrated.

The labour gender gap might start at home: girls spend 40% more time on chores more than boys, worldwide

For some girls, chores are a training academy for a life as a housekeeper.

NASA reports damage from Hurricane Matthew

NASA itself feared the worst from the hurricane, but thankfully, the damage done at Cape Canaveral seems minor.

Algorithm finally cuts any cake in equal, envy-free slices

Because cutting cake has to be perfect.

First living-donor uterus transplant in the US performed in Texas

Out of four procedures, one has potential for success.

New farm in the middle of the desert will use only sunlight and seawater - no pesticides, fossil fuels, or even soil

The sun and the sea - that's all it needs.

Scientists create the smallest transistor ever

Smallest. Transistor. Ever

Squished-booms: looking at the behavior of underwater explosions

Explosions behave quite differently underwater than what you'd see on the surface.

Apes can also understand what's in other people's heads, and can even spot false beliefs

We're not so special after all.

Struggling with math? You might have what scientists call a 'math disability'

You now have a new excuse for failing math.

Chicken korma shows why we like the food we like

Pass me some of that fat.

Bees can feel optimism, possibly other 'emotion-like states' as well, study finds

All it takes to make them happy is some sugar.

Five genes could give dogs their unique human interaction -- and they share four with us

Woof.

Globalization offers us a huge choice of foodstuffs -- but we're not having it

Game theory doesn't apply to farming like it does to other areas of industry.

Americans are worried about climate change but, paradoxically, aren't talking about it (and this doesn't help at all)

When everyone is silent, nothing gets done.