Canada Science News API

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            "title": "Curiosity Drilled Into a Rock on Mars And Gave Scientists a Big Surprise",
            "description": "The Curiosity rover has revealed many surprises on the surface of Mars, but its most recent one is of a totally different kind.",
            "content": "The Curiosity rover has revealed many surprises on the surface of Mars, but its most recent one is of a totally different kind.\nIt started like any other drilling attempt.\nOn 25 April 2026, the rover plunged its rotary-percussive drill into a rock na... [3599 chars]",
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            "content": "Earth’s earliest continents may have set the chemical stage for life by regulating boron levels in ancient oceans, a new study in Terra Nova suggests.\nScientists have long proposed that boron helps stabilize the fragile sugars needed to build RNA—the... [2198 chars]",
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            "title": "Extraordinary Genetic Convergent Evolution in Moths, Butterflies",
            "description": "The practice of re-usage of functional parts in different systems is “ubiquitous” in human-designed technology just as convergence is “ubiquitous” in biology.",
            "content": "We’re often told that the distribution of traits among organisms fits neatly with a nested hierarchy or an evolutionary “tree,” thereby supposedly demonstrating common descent. This claim is true, except for when it isn’t. There are numerous cases wh... [10575 chars]",
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