by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Worms, plankton, water fleas, sedges, algae, and cattails—the foundations of the food web in Toronto’s Don River ecosystem, simply woke up again after 130 years of entombment, stunning scientists. The Don River was tamed and turned into a canalized, industrial...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
A creative solution from up north for how to stop crows and geese from leaving droppings all over a school playground has left several residents in a dreadful fright. The story comes from the city of Menlo Park in California, where a pair of “coyotes” are scarring...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Measuring no more than 2 feet long from nose to tail, a newly-described crocodilian nicknamed “Elton” likely lived its entire life on land where it lounged in the Cretaceous Montana sunshine, eating plants and insects. Elton was about the size of a big lizard,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Reprinted with Permission from World at Large… What if there were a way that didn’t involve CRISPR to give your offspring a natural talent for athletics? Well that’s totally possible as it turns out, because scientists just demonstrated it in mice, and it didn’t even...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
From the restaurant scene in Miami to the fan-powered boats of the Everglades, people are really excited about oysters. Can you imagine—the bivalve so associated with cold waters in places like Brittany, Sydney, Galway, or California, being grown in the muddy,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Stretches of land, now hidden beneath the sea, may have given early humans a way to move between what is today Turkey and Europe, according to groundbreaking new research in this little-studied region. The recently published study reveals the first evidence of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Cambridge University archivists are leading an important project to extract and conserve valuable information from floppy disks before they become unusable. The initiative began when the archive received a box of 5.25-inch floppy disks from a DOS-formatted computer...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
A new technology utilizing coffee and plastic waste is designed to capture carbon dioxide from industrial processes before it’s released into the atmosphere, and has been patented by scientists. The highly novel and detailed method with promising potential to reduce...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Scientists have used the root system of mushrooms to create a composting toilet that is odor absorbing, while creating over 2,000 liters of fertilizer and soil a year. Separating solids from from liquids and processing each in different ways using fungal mycelia, the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Swiss researchers have pioneered a method of cultivating metal out of water-based gel, an innovation that promises valuable applications in energy technology. The concept aims to power the production of unique sensors, biomedical devices, or energy conversion and...
