Botswana Science News API

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            "title": "Primates’ same-sex sexual behaviour ‘may reinforce bonds amid environmental stress’",
            "description": "Behaviour among non-human species could help keep groups together in face of social challenges, says study",
            "content": "Same-sex sexual behaviour among non-human primates may arise as a way to reinforce bonds and keep societies together in the face of environmental or social challenges, researchers have suggested.\nProf Vincent Savolainen, a co-author of the paper from... [3921 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/12/primates-same-sex-sexual-behaviour-reinforce-social-bonds-study",
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            "title": "Astronomers may have already spotted the 'Great Comet of 2026' - and it could soon be visible to the naked eye",
            "description": "Recently discovered Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in late April and could potentially be visible to the naked eye. It may end up being the brightest comet of the year.",
            "content": "We may be less than two weeks into 2026, but a new comet is already leading the charge to become the \"Great Comet\" of the year. The highly anticipated ice ball, which could potentially be seen with the naked eye, will reach its closest point to us le... [4192 chars]",
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            "title": "What if Dark Energy isn't real? A new gravity theory says maybe not",
            "description": "Researchers are proposing a new perspective: the expansion of the universe could be explained without the need for dark energy.",
            "content": "For years, physicists have wrestled with one of the universe’s strangest riddles: why is the cosmos expanding faster and faster? The standard explanation has been dark energy, an invisible force added into the equations to make the math work.\nBut now... [1982 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.techexplorist.com/dark-energy-real-new-gravity-theory/101824/",
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