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...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
An Iranian-born British lawyer has made history as the UK’s first High Commissioner to come to the country as a refugee. Fleeing the post-revolutionary landscape to arrive in Great Britain without a word of English on his lips, Kanbar Hossein-Bor admitted his mother...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Physicists experimenting with a giant particle accelerator accidently proved medieval alchemists right: that base metals could be turned into gold. While studying electromagnetic disassociation and beam losses, the physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) saw...
