by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Bahamas were once crawling with pirates, but have always been crawling with lizards. Do the two have anything in common? Well, much like the old trope of pirates missing legs and hands, many of the lizards of the Bahamas are too. The reason we know this is because...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
In northern Sri Lanka, an area largely avoided by the 2 million tourists who visit the island every year, an organization has safely removed its 300,000th landmine leftover from the island’s civil war. Those mines and unexploded bombs were cleared across an area 33%...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
For patients with returning head and neck cancers, there are few if any potential options other than further chemotherapy sessions. But now, doctors and oncologists are hopeful that that is a reality soon to enter the past tense after initial success seen in a large...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Mr. and Mrs. O’Malley-Flack might have been anxious while they waited for their daughter to complete her dyslexia test. The 10-year-old had had trouble spelling, and it was recommended she take an examination, but as it turned out, she had something else entirely—a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
A “new era” has begun in the development of artificial vision after a combination electronic eye implant—with augmented reality glasses restored vision to blind eyes in patients with untreatable macular degeneration. Those treated with the device could read, on...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
A pair of Colorado innovators have designed an autonomous sprinkler system to hose down a home if it detects an approaching wildfire. With both men having experienced the threat of wildfires first hand, each said they were driven to try and do something about it....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Under local anesthesia, a woman in England was able to play her clarinet for the first time in 5 years whilst receiving treatment for Parkinson’s disease. The deep-brain stimulation (DBS) procedure promised, if successful, to restore motor control in the patient’s...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Scientists studying the North Atlantic right whale have celebrated a year without mortalities in which four new whale mothers entered the breeding population. 11 calves were born this year, the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium reported in a document released...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Once the steel and manufacturing jobs dried up, the town of Venice began to sink. This Illinois community lost two-thirds of its population, before seeing its last remaining grocery store close, and even its only school. But things are looking up again thanks to an...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards just released their annual finalists. “We are absolutely delighted to reveal the hotly anticipated finalists of the 2025 competition. They are a cracking collection of jaw dropping and laugh out loud photos of some of the most...
