South Africa Science News API

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            "title": "Jupiter’s Moon Europa May Still Hold Keys For Life, Especially Her Seafloor",
            "description": "A new project has shown that Jupiter’s moon Europa may hold the key to life in its oceans.",
            "content": "A new project has shown that Jupiter’s moon Europa may hold the key to life in its oceans.\nThe research team is led by Washington University with participation from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).\nEuropa has an enormous amount of wat... [2046 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.deeperblue.com/jupiters-moon-europa-may-still-hold-keys-for-life-especially-her-seafloor/",
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            "title": "Fractal nature of galaxy clustering in the updated CfA Redshift catalog",
            "description": "We have recently argued that the expansion of the Universe is compatible not only with standard homogeneity, but also with fractal homogeneity in a hierarchical fractal cosmology. In this work we further test this paradigm using the galactic distances obtained from the Updated CfA Redshift Catalogs. We confirm that the observed multifractal spectrum is consistent with the weighted Cantor set models characteristic of turbulence in space magnetized plasmas such as the solar wind in heliosphere, the very local interstellar medium and even in laboratory experiments. The degree of multifractality is smaller than that found inside the heliosphere and shows some variations between nearby and more distant galaxies, which may be related to the presence of voids in the large-scale matter distribution. A possible asymmetry in the spectrum may be attributed to some deviations from the Hubble’s law for an ideal uniform expansion. Overall, the deviations from homogeneity revealed by multifractal analysis should be broadly consistent with $$\\Lambda$$CDM large-scale structure formation.",
            "content": "Mandelbrot, B. B. The Fractal Geometry of Nature (Freeman, New York, 1982).\nHogg, D. W. et al. Cosmic homogeneity demonstrated with luminous red galaxies. Astrophys. J. 624(1), 54–58. https://doi.org/10.1086/429084 (2005).\nYadav, J., Bharadwaj, S., P... [9142 chars]",
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            "title": "A Biologist Explains Why Humans Have Chins. Hint: Anthropologists Still Can’t Agree On The Answer",
            "description": "The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we know about it so far.",
            "content": "Look at your face in the mirror, and you’ll see it instantly: the chin. This small, bony prominence at the bottom of our lower jaws is such a mundane feature that we hardly even notice that it’s there — until you realize that it’s actually one of the... [7331 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2026/01/24/a-biologist-explains-why-humans-have-chins-hint-anthropologists-still-cant-agree-on-the-answer/",
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