by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Spanish startup has successfully tested a new thruster for spacecraft that runs on a ‘green’ propellant to replace the ultra-toxic hydrazine commonly used in the industry. It inside uses hydrogen peroxide, and is then not only less toxic but also substantially less...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Two paintings have been recovered 40 years after they were stolen from an art museum in New Mexico, the FBI has reported. The paintings, by Victor Higgins and Joseph Henry Sharp, were stolen in March of 1985 from the Harwood Museum of Art at the University of New...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
An architecture firm is having fun building microlibraries across Java with playful designs that offer respite from the heat. Envisioned as an excellent way to increase literacy, they attract children with the designs who then get to enjoy a reading environment that...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
‘Lucky’ doesn’t begin to describe David Serkin, who beat cancer and won the lottery in his home state of Alberta, Canada. Serkin won $500,000 million last August with a LOTTO MAX game by the Western Canada Lottery Corporation, giving the cancer survivor and retiree an...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
For the first time ever, Chinese biologists have successfully rescued, rehabilitated, and reintroduced a Yangtze finless porpoise back into the wild stretches of the great river. A critically-endangered species of cetacean, the family that includes dolphins,...
