United Kingdom Science News API

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            "title": "Whoever finds the Voyager Golden Record will know exactly how long it has been drifting, because the scientists who built it pressed a small sample of uranium into the cover — a built-in clock that ke",
            "description": "The uranium-238 electroplated onto the Voyager record cover really is a clock a finder could read. But with a half-life of 4.51 billion years it keeps time far longer than the 'billion years' usually quoted, which describes the disc's lifespan, not the clock's. Plus the pulsar map, a second clock.",
            "content": "The two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, each carry a gold-plated copper phonograph record holding sounds and images of Earth. On the aluminium cover of each record is a detail that gets less attention than the music: a small sample of uranium, ... [3635 chars]",
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            "description": "It might sound strange but a swarm of bees deciding where to live is perhaps one of the cleanest examples of a crowd making a good choice without anyone in charge. There is no leader, no vote-counter, no bee that surveys the options and issues a verdict. The queen, despite the title, has no say […]",
            "content": "It might sound strange but a swarm of bees deciding where to live is perhaps one of the cleanest examples of a crowd making a good choice without anyone in charge.\nThere is no leader, no vote-counter, no bee that surveys the options and issues a verd... [4705 chars]",
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            "title": "Strange Green Stones And a Child's Tooth Deepen a Pyrenees Mystery",
            "description": "For archaeologists there's something wonderfully strange about 'Cave 338', high up in the Pyrenees mountains in southwestern Europe.",
            "content": "For archaeologists there's something wonderfully strange about 'Cave 338', high up in the Pyrenees mountains in southwestern Europe.\nAs remote and inhospitable as it is, it seems that prehistoric people returned time and time again to the spot.\nThe c... [3736 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-green-stones-and-a-childs-tooth-deepen-a-pyrenees-mystery",
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