South Africa Science News API

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            "title": "Space shuttle ready for new mission in California",
            "description": "The Space Shuttle Endeavour, which took astronauts into orbit 25 times, went on display at the California Science Center on its final mission on Wednesday.",
            "content": "LOS ANGELES - The Space Shuttle Endeavour, which took astronauts into orbit 25 times, went on display at the California Science Center on its final mission on Wednesday.\nThe orbiter, built to replace the ill-fated Challenger which exploded in 1986, s... [1331 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.enca.com/lifestyle/space-shuttle-ready-new-mission-california",
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            "title": "A Star Dying by the Wrong Rules",
            "description": "Half the stars in the universe live in pairs and when one of them dies it can feed hungrily off the other in a slow, violent dance. Now a Korean team has caught a couple of stars breaking the rules, locked in an orbit so impossibly fast that our best theories of how stars grow old cannot account for it. So what is this dying star trying to tell us?",
            "content": "How do you watch a star die? If it lives alone, like our Sun, it’s rather more difficult. So when researchers want to understand stellar death, they turn instead to the roughly half of all stars that live in pairs, locked in orbit around a companion.... [3015 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-star-dying-by-the-wrong-rules",
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                "name": "Universe Today",
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            "title": "no males in the cave system",
            "description": "The first protein analysis of the fossil teeth of Homo naledi showed that all individuals in the cave system are female. This may provide further evidence that these extinct human relatives had some form of culture.",
            "content": "An international team of researchers successfully extracted and analysed the first-ever protein fragments from 23 fossil teeth of Homo naledi, found in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa.\nThe teeth tested were from all the in... [7807 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-06-24-no-males-found-as-homo-naledi-discovery-deepens-evolutionary-puzzle/",
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            "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T16:10:35Z",
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                "name": "Daily Maverick",
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