by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
After five years of testing, an autonomous electric bus has been deployed to a park in Madrid for one final, real-world experiment in driverless vehicles for public transit. If it succeeds, the cute little caterpillar-shaped bus may become a mainstay in the Spanish...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Finland is doubling down on evidence from four years ago that definitively shows how children can avoid diseases and allergies throughout their lives if they’re permitted to get down and dirty in daycare. Dozens of comparative studies have previously found that...
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...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Stargazers and Luna-lovers are being spoiled this autumn. Having already enjoyed a late Harvest Moon spectacle in October, they can now follow that up with a second supermoon that will be the largest of 2025. A supermoon is a colloquial term for when the Moon reaches...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Between 2012 and 2017, 62 babies and toddlers were treated with a genetic therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency, known colloquially as the “Bubble Boy disease.” In 2021, GNN reported on the results of the trial—that by 2019, 95%, or all but two of the young...
