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...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Royal Meteorological Society has announced the winners of this year’s Weather Photographer of the Year Competition. Sponsored by the financial services and banking firm Standard Chartered, the competition is now in its 10th year. Chosen from over 4,000 images...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
An English musical project helps plants and fungi branch out from their quiet natures and express their creativity thanks to a set of bionic arms. Translating their bioelectrical signals into movements of the arms, the mushrooms begin to jam out on keyboards and drum...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Tramping through coastal marshlands in eastern China, a strange looking deer roams freely in herds of hundreds; a remarkable recovery from where they had been just a few decades ago. Described in ancient China as a beast with the antlers of a deer, hooves of an ox,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Thanks to a good old newspaper back page ad, an English woman has found a whole new side to life—her father’s, whom she had never met. It started when Louise Walters was 8 years old and found out the man she thought was her father, wasn’t. Louise’s mom, Angie Ishmael...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
The world’s largest spectroscopic telescope has just recorded the first observations from its new perch high in the mountains of Chile. Capable of revealing new information about any cosmic object or phenomena an astronomer cares to study, the telescope will feature...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Two California farmers were honored recently for being the first ones to help save over 20 students aboard a school bus that caught fire. Long before the Madera Country Fire Department arrived on scene, Angel Zarco and Carlos Perea were there, and in fact, the pair...
