by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Californian power authorities have finished their first solar panel-covered canal project, that will generate 1.6 megawatts. Overseen and built by and for the Turlock Irrigation District Water & Power overtop a curved section near the town of Hickman, the canal...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Virginia lottery winner immediately donated the entire sum of her winnings to three personally-important charities. Winning $150,000 after matching 4 of the 5 numbers plus the Powerball number, a $1 dollar Powerplay addition saw her standard $50,000 prize tripled....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is a saltmarsh sparrow, an Endangered species of bird that builds its nest in its eponymous habitat. A collaboration of citizen scientists working in Jacob’s Point salt marsh in Rhode Island is attempting to save the animal—which they believe will go extinct by...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the blockbuster 1993 film Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg’s screenwriters tell the story of scientists who recover dinosaur DNA from a mosquito entombed in amber and use it to clone the animals back into existence. Today, a recent paleontological discovery comes to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
From the BBC comes the story of an intrepid and dedicated scientist who has spent decades working in China’s mountain forests in an effort to protect and understand one of the nation’s most amazing animals. The golden sub-nosed monkey is revered alongside the giant...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
The world’s most romantic river also helps prevent residents from getting all hot and bothered, cooling their offices and homes through a heat transfer system. Currently, around 60 miles of piping channels water to and from the Seine in Paris, but it has nothing to do...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Conservationists and zookeepers are celebrating our closest living relative giving birth to a healthy baby. Heart-tugging photos show the bonobo mother Yuli cradling her tiny newborn after it was born at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire last Thursday. Experts have...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
A team of deep-sea divers has recovered a slew of artifacts from the wreck of Titanic’s sister ship, a vessel sunk by a mine during the First World War. Called the HMHS Britannic, it was one of three Olympic-class ocean liners built by the White Star Lines company in...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
A college engineering student is making headlines for her clothing line that spins red solo cups thrown away after fraternity parties into soft sweaters and beanie caps. The process addresses every concern or question one might have, and is finding a second life for...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
At a zoo in Richmond, a raucous litter of cheetah cubs is delighting onlookers having spent the summer months growing in secret. One of the largest litters born at the zoo, the three-month-old cubs are hitting milestones and progressing well towards adolescence. Named...
