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...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
The owner of a California dry cleaner is showing those down on their luck that the community wants them to succeed—so he’s ensuring they look their best as they get ready for their next big break. After talking to fellow owners of dry cleaners about how they could...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
For more than a decade, parents were inundated with unsubstantiated claims that violent video games influence children and teens to be violent. Now, from California comes the story of exactly the opposite occurring. A teenage gamer, who routinely engages in virtual...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Pennsylvania comes the story of a man who had to make the difficult decision to put down his dog, but who couldn’t believe the sendoff he received from the local Texas Roadhouse. Receiving a to-go order with the note “last meal for our dog,” the staff made sure...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
A former social worker in Canada is enjoying his retirement in a very similar way to how he enjoyed his long career: by listening to people. Likening it to being the “stranger on the airplane” in the seat next to you, Paul Jenkinson is currently on a cross-Canada tour...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Geologists recently unearthed the vertebrae of a giant prehistoric marine lizard during fieldwork. Measuring a full 7 inches across, an extrapolation of that size would place the animal among the largest ever to swim in the prehistoric precursor to the Gulf of Mexico....
