by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
The story of how Sphenodraco scandentis came to be known is one for the ages: involving lies and deceit, and the well-trained eye of a brilliant paleontology student. Ph.D. student Victor Beccari couldn’t shake the feeling he had seen the fossil before: it was a slab...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Scientists have found that plants make a series of sounds that indicate they are under duress, and that certain animals have evolved to hear these and react to them. Described as a “vast, unexplored field,” the phytoacoustics are inaudible to the human hear, but...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Bat boys often blend into the background, becoming bit players in the operations of a major league baseball game. But the Philadelphia Phillies recently gave their bat boy, Adam Crognale, the star treatment, creating a hype video that helped get him elected to this...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
A German backpacker lost for 12 days in the Australian outback has survived and spoken out regarding her traumatic experience. Carolina Wilga’s disappearance gripped the nation after her friends and family lost contact with her in late June and her van was discovered...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created something 225-times the size of our Sun. It’s the largest such event ever detected in the history of gravitational wave astronomy, and pushed...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the Maldives, a mobile coral spawning system has been trialed with scintillating success, as 10,000 juvenile corals were grown by local operators. It represents not only a major hope that island nations can abate the loss of coral reefs, but also that the spawning...
