by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
30 previously unknown deep-sea species, including the carnivorous “death-ball” sponge, have been confirmed from one of the most remote parts of the planet. The animals were collected during a pair of 2025 research cruises to the waters around Antarctica which yielded...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
During the dawning years of civilization, a landscape in what is today Jordan was undergoing a transformation from an agricultural, residential one to a ritualistic one with an intense focus on the afterlife and communal events. This is described in a paper that...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
It’s not everyday that Henry the polar bear sees something that weighs more than he does. At 1,200-pounds, the polar bear is the world’s largest land predator, but here was something substantially heavier, and it was just sitting there in his enclosure. Defensive at...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
A gorgeous 20th century painting has been donated to Polish cultural authorities following its reappearance after 70 years. Recorded as being housed in a girl’s school in the city that would become Wroclaw after World War II, it never resurfaced following the end of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Every November, the 1,200 denizens of Australia’s Christmas Island break out the rake and leaf blower and head out to their yards, driveways, and sidewalks. It’s not dead oak and beech leaves on their minds, however, but another red-tinted carpet—100 million...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
A pair of European mathematicians have proven a 300-year-old inference on shapes wrong, and won a bet on behalf of a long-dead Englishmen who got into a famous argument with his prince. The story begins with an experiment: take two gaming dice, put one on top of the...
