by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
An exoplanet located 2,000 light years from Earth is so unusual it’s given astronomers the idea that it could be a totally new type of object. That’s because it’s shaped like a lemon, with a small tip just like the fruit has, and a free-floating carbon atmosphere...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Was it bad luck to name a black cat Shadow? The family cat, owned by Jeremy Barton, his wife, and their two sons, went missing while Barton was heading home from the far north of British Columbia, vanishing into the forest just like his namesake. In a provincial park...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
A woman given something like a terminal prognosis has responded with a simple request for what might be her last Christmas: a Christmas card. Clare Jones from Swansea, Wales, was told her bowel cancer was no longer responding to chemotherapy. The mother of 3, who was...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
On Friday, a Georgia fire department undertook an unusual Christmas tradition. In place of decking the halls, the men and women of the Sandy Springs Fire Department (SSFD) link up with Santa, and rappel down the walls of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to surprise...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
The small and uninhabited islet of Prickly Pear East is not what you might describe as a romantic holiday destination, but for the Lesser Antillean iguana, it has proved to be just that. Thanks to an ambitious program of cross-Caribbean matchmaking, a new population...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open, but some 20,000 years ago their ancestors lived in a cave where they used the bones of prey animals rather than soft soil. The groundbreaking discovery was made in a Caribbean cave that narrowly escaped...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
In late October, Samsung announced that it was preparing to take its long-anticipated solid-state batteries to market with a trilateral agreement between itself, BMW, and American battery expert Solid Power. It was January of last year that industry outlets began to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Recently, an Indian environmentalist and editor was invited to share his incredible work restoring hundreds of natural and man-made water sources all across India with a unique style of landscape engineering. His nonprofit has cleaned and reshaped more than 600 bodies...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Below the soil of a mining concession in Utah, a recent drill survey has discovered what might be North America’s largest-known deposit of so-called “critical minerals.” Turning up evidence of elements like gallium, lithium, tungsten, and vanadium, the land is already...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
A fussy five-year-old girl has overcome her phobia of vegetables and now loves Brussels sprouts–just in time for her mother’s Christmas dinner. Emie Williams would scream and cry if her mom, Hayley, tried to give her anything except crackers, french fries, or other...
