by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Pensacola comes the story of an improvised rescue that saved the life of a teenage girl who was caught in a riptide. A seizure-prone fisherman used his specialized drone to lower a life-preserver into the water, allowing her to rest and recover enough to fight...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
The title of a 2,000-year-old Greek philosophical text has been read by computer scientists using AI to study scrolls buried by the eruption of Vesuvius. On Vices was written by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before Vesuvius’...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
An absolutely staggering new perception of our Moon and Sun was captured by a little-known NASA mission called PUNCH. Showing a halo of light surrounding an eclipsed sun with the Moon passing through, it was taken during PUNCH’s commissioning stage—a step to ensure...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
The first human bladder transplant was successfully carried out at University of California LA, an attempt that has been four years in the making. There are naturally many unknowns associated with the procedure, which has previously only been done on cadavers, such as...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
A bird lover has been rescuing and relocating snowy owls from the Boston airport for over a decade, ensuring 900 of these majestic hunters can return home after winter. The star of a recent award-winning documentary, Norman Smith, a raptor specialist at the...