Zimbabwe Science News API

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            "title": "What are supermassive black holes? Everything you need to know - and what astronomers are still learning - about these mysterious objects",
            "description": "Black holes are a mainstay in sci-fi movies. How do these massive black holes, spread throughout our universe, actually work in real life?",
            "content": "Nearly every massive galaxy observed hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that some of these supermassive black holes may even be too big for the galaxy they’re found in, challenging astronom... [6522 chars]",
            "url": "https://theconversation.com/what-are-supermassive-black-holes-everything-you-need-to-know-and-what-astronomers-are-still-learning-about-these-mysterious-objects-283838",
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            "publishedAt": "2026-06-25T12:35:31Z",
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                "name": "The Conversation",
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            "title": "Genetic diversity of late Neanderthals in northwestern Europe",
            "description": "Archaeological, osteological and genetic evidence suggests that Neanderthals lived in small groups1,2; however, less is known about whether these groups were part of isolated communities or belonged to larger, well-connected populations3. The dense concentration of broadly contemporaneous Neanderthal sites in the Meuse Basin, Belgium4, provides a rare opportunity to study regional populations at high resolution. Here we generated genetic data from 27 Neanderthals who lived less than approximately 52,500 years ago from ten archaeological sites in Belgium and France, including a high-coverage genome from a 45,000-year-old individual from Goyet, Belgium. We show that most of these individuals are more closely related to one another than to other contemporaneous late Neanderthals in Europe. Further, some of these individuals carry DNA from a Neanderthal lineage predating the split of late Neanderthals. Although these Neanderthals overlapped temporally with early modern humans in northwestern Europe from around 47,000 years ago, we find no evidence of recent gene flow from modern humans. They also do not show the genetic signatures of mating among close relatives found in Altai Neanderthals, suggesting that they lived in larger or better-connected groups. Moreover, genetic load did not accumulate over time, arguing against progressive genetic deterioration as a driver of Neanderthal extinction. Genetic sequencing of multiple late Neanderthals living less than 52,500 years ago provides an overview of genetic diversity and demonstrates that even low-coverage nuclear genome data can increase resolution of within-Neanderthal diversity.",
            "content": "We screened the skeletal remains of 34 late Neanderthals from seven sites in the Meuse Basin (Goyet, Spy, Couvin, Trou Magrite, Engis, Walou and Fonds-de-Forêt) and two sites in France (Saint-Césaire and Arcy-sur-Cure) for ancient DNA preservation (F... [21162 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10625-1?error=cookies_not_supported&code=83561d21-a510-4515-9f81-01b440454ef7",
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            "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T21:45:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7abf0df285fbe93cdccffcc7c4088737",
                "name": "Nature",
                "url": "https://www.nature.com"
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            "title": "Images: Perseverance reaches 'marathon' milestone on Mars",
            "description": "NASA's Perseverance rover appears as a green speck on the Martian surface on June 13, 2026, a day before the robotic explorer marked a distance milestone, having traveled a full marathon (26.2 miles, or 42.195 kilometers) on the Red Planet. Perseverance reached that distance after five years and four months of driving—on the 1,890th Martian day (sol) of its mission; the previous record holder, NASA's Opportunity rover, took 11 years and two months to reach the same milestone.",
            "content": "NASA's Perseverance rover appears as a green speck on the Martian surface on June 13, 2026, a day before the robotic explorer marked a distance milestone, having traveled a full marathon (26.2 miles, or 42.195 kilometers) on the Red Planet. Persevera... [583 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-06-images-perseverance-marathon-milestone-mars.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2026/hirise-snaps-persevera.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T20:20:04Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
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                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
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