by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Video cameras captured the moment when pine martens returned to Britain’s Exmoor National Park for the first time in 100 years. The pioneering nature project has reintroduced 19 of the rare creatures back into habitat they once flourished in, and joins a series of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a potent psychoactive molecule present in the brain and much of the world’s plant life, but it also may be able to save humans from damage in the event of a stroke. Scientists in Hungary used it to reduce the harmful effects of stroke...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
In late September, Lake Muskegon in Michigan was officially removed from the list of polluted water bodies in the Great Lakes Region. Once home to foundries, paper mills, petroleum storage and sewage treatment plants, the lake and several of its tributaries became an...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
A historic shipwreck salvage business has pulled up over 1,000 silver and gold coins from a Spanish treasure fleet that sank off the coast of Florida in 1715. The haul could fetch $1 million at market value, with five of the coins found being gold escudos, which along...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the timepiece capital of the world, time may be running out for carbon-heavy imported steel thanks to a new solar-powered furnace. Swiss firm Panatere has patented, and has now inaugurated, the world’s first two solar foundries for melting down steel for reuse....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Researchers in Spain were left feeling a mixture of confusion and intrigue when they found several straw sandals embedded in a bearded vulture nest. They didn’t know it at the time, but it was over 6 centuries ago that a bearded vulture flew from its hunting grounds...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Scientists from MIT have created a conductive “nanonetwork” inside a unique concrete mixture that could enable everyday structures like walls, sidewalks, and bridges to store and release electrical energy. It’s perhaps the most ubiquitous man-made material on Earth by...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Back when the internet was just starting, nations were all given a URL in order to publish websites official to the nation. The US got .us and the UK got .uk. Well Anguilla, the small British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, was given .ai, and with investments and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Pub owner Justine Lorriman loves soccer, and has spent the last year transforming the garden area of her establishment into a mini stadium, with its very own terraced seating, mini football pitch, and outside bar area with seats given to her by the local team. Her pub...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
A daughter who became the first in her family to graduate from college has handed over the master bedroom of her new apartment to her mom—who in 64 years never had a room of her own. The duo grew up in poverty and uncertainty, homelessness and insecurity, but through...
