United Kingdom Science News API

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            "description": "The stones were found in the same location where the rover previously found potential biosignatures",
            "content": "NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover just found further evidence the Red Planet may have supported life billions of years ago.\nA pair of Martian mudstones the rover collected from the planet’s Bright Angel rock formation in the Jezero crater have complex c... [2766 chars]",
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            "description": "The rhythmic patterns of laughter found in apes and humans reveal that complex primate vocal control might have started evolving 15 million years ago.",
            "content": "Tickling a chimpanzee, a gorilla and a human child causes similar rhythms of laughter, according to an analysis of primate behaviour.\nLaughter is a conserved vocalization in humans and their closest primate relatives. A study published in Communicati... [2020 chars]",
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            "title": "Tickled Apes Reveal the Rhythmic Roots of Laughter",
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            "content": "Humor is deeply personal. A punchline or a pratfall that leaves one person doubled over in delight might elicit blank stares from another. But laughter is universal, an innate instinct shared by humans everywhere.\nAnd not just humans. Chimps chuckle,... [1012 chars]",
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