by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Nationally protected badgers have just been given the right of way by Cornwall council, with a new wildlife crossing that will allow them to pass over a busy road unharmed. To reach across the four-lane divided highway, the crossing, nicknamed the “badger bridge,” is...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
After a young Virginian saved his family from a house fire, the local fire chief admitted that if he ever needed a job in his hometown, it’s enough to come by the fire department. Romir Parker, a seventh grader from the city of Petersburg, near Richmond, was presented...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Addison McArthur was just a few weeks old when she received the gift that saved her life. Not long after her birth, the left side of Addison’s heart stopped working. The official diagnosis was left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy—a rare disorder that can...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Your iPhone 16 camera has 48 megapixels. Astronomy’s latest toy has 3,200. That’s because the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side to side. It has to be able to do this because of its...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
A deadly fungus has been turned into a potent cancer-fighting compound after researchers isolated a new class of molecules from it. Aspergillus flavus, a toxic crop fungus linked to deaths in the excavations of ancient tombs—such as that of the boy pharaoh...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Excavations at a London development site have yielded one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster ever discovered in the capital. The painted wall plaster once decorated a high-status Roman building in Southwark, which was demolished some time before...