by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
It’s been 113 years since the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic sank, and engineers still have hopes of someday creating unsinkable ships. None more so than a team at the University of Rochester that recently present a new “superhydrophobic” design that could lead to more...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
When a Syracuse police officer got the call that there was someone living among the dead at Oakwood Cemetery, you’d forgive them for perhaps being a little on edge. But what they found wasn’t anything out of a horror film. Instead, it was 55-year-old widow Rhea...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
Farming adaptations have seen Canada’s farmers turn out record harvests in the middle of a 5-year drought. Truly unsavory conditions, like oppressive rainfall followed by an immediate return to drought, would typically have left the wheat on Simon Ellis’ fields...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
After low winter temperatures battered multiple regions of the country with snow, heroes in Washington, DC, stood up to be accounted for. With major thoroughfares taking priority for District plows and employees, the ‘DC Snow Heroes’ hit the blocks, shovels in hand,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Guatemala has opted out of renewing a lease agreement on a 7,000-acre oil field in order to use the land for better protection of the surrounding Laguna del Tigre Biosphere Reserve. An 830,000-acre component of the greater Mayan Biosphere Reserve which allows...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Birdwatchers can’t believe what’s been appearing through their binoculars on a small landholding in West Sussex, England, where the nation’s premier rewilding project continues to compound on its already staggering achievements. The Knepp Estate has increased the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
As prices of recycled paper, plastic, and aluminum increase, waste management firms are seeing an unexpected return on investment from their installations of AI-powered robotic trash sorters. Certainly with any robotic system, the ROI is expected to come from labor...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
How do you hunt a whale when your boat is made of logs lashed with vines and your harpoon is carved from animal bone? That’s what Spanish researchers were left wondering when they discovered evidence from a museum in southern Brazil that indigenous people 5,000 years...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
It’s always a bit of a struggle to walk through an animal shelter, past all those pairs of eyes watching you from behind bars, knowing you can’t take more than a couple home with you. At Bide Awhile Animal Shelter in Nova Scotia, there’s no such struggle—the cages are...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
In a new image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, the dying breaths of the star at the heart of the famous Helix Nebula are exposed in wonder and radiance. Imaged many times by previous space telescopes, including Hubble and Spitzer, the Helix Nebula is loved...
