by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
The reproductive spores of a moss species were able to somehow survive the vacuum of space during a 9-month stint outside the International Space Station. In the immortal words of Jeff Goldblum, life, uh, finds a way. Physcomitrella patens is known as a hardy pioneer...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering the confirmation of a bright galaxy that existed a mere 280 million years after the Big Bang; so close to the beginning of the universe as we understand. GNN reported on the last such...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
While searching for their cubs, the females of the world’s third-largest feline will make a sound that’s strikingly similar to what you’ve heard your own cat make. Weighing in excess of 300 lbs., the jaguar is a ferocious predator that can take large caiman and even...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
From Germany comes the story of mountains of potatoes as far as the eye can see going to feed anyone and everyone in Berlin and nearby towns. For German potato farmers, the early winter potato harvest has been a bumper crop—no, a banner crop—nay, it’s a full-on...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
When an adult male civilian rushed into a New Jersey police station, it’s anyone’s guess what the two officers inside imagined was the matter—a shooting, a fire, a bad car accident. What they almost certainly would not have guessed—and wouldn’t have known because the...
