by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
With a little ingenuity, and some modifications to an old piece of tech, 11-year-old Desa Kaiser is back where she belongs: on the dance floor. Being paralyzed from the waist down is no impediment to the girl from Pennsylvania, who suffered the debilitating injury in...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Singapore, a pair of self-described “tinkerers” have made headlines around the world for their simple educational toy set to help low-income families introduce their children to robotics. More than just robotics, the stick-in-socket building set encourages kids to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
An Indian initiative is utilizing a scientific technique known as spectroscopy to prove the authenticity of traditional, handwoven silken garments over forgeries. Often making headlines in the study of planets and nebulae in our galaxy, the spectroscopy device allows...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Singing has been linked to numerous benefits for health, wellbeing, disease resistance, and recovery from injury, but when singing in a group, these benefits are seen to be superior to those seen in solo singers. The research, though not new, still makes for a pretty...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Danish researchers have found a molecular switch that lets plants partner with nitrogen-fixing bacteria instead of fighting them, opening the way to self-fertilizing cereal crops like wheat and barley. Their new research highlights an important biological clue that...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
A man has built a rechargeable battery pack big enough to power his whole home using just the batteries from discarded vapes. British engineer Chris Doel thinks it’s “absolutely insane” that people use disposable vaping pens, as they come with a lithium-ion battery...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Even as the final scimitar-horned oryx was felled for meat and leather on the Saharan dunes, a network of zoos, hunting reserves, and even a royal menagerie, guaranteed they would live on in captivity. Now, 9 years after these graceful antelope were first introduced...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
From 60 Minutes comes the story of a Georgia science team that carried the Stars and Stripes to Europe for an international science competition and finished in the top ten by using genetic engineering to develop a superior testing and treatment method for Lyme...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
When 9-year-old Oscar Wilkins heard he’d been given the role of ‘Elvis the Elf’ in the nativity play at his primary school last week, the alliteration left him confused over what to tell his parents. Coming home, Oscar’s sister said neither he nor the school had been...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
“But where else would one expect to find a right whale with Irish connections if not off Boston?” They were the words of Padraig Whooley with the Irish Whale & Dolphin Group, spoken in reference to a never-before-seen migratory pattern in the Critically Endangered...
