by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Renewable energy sources like solar and wind produced more electricity during the first half of the year than any other energy resource, including coal. To bullet another massive accomplishment in the clean energy transition, of the cumulative demand for new power...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
For nearly 3 centuries, Scotland’s western isles were ruled by men who considered themselves kings equal to those in Edinburgh or London. The island of Islay was the seat of the Lordship of the Isles, but evidence of a castle from an earlier period, as well as finds...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
A performance unlike any other just wrapped up in New York City, where an audience of a few lucky hundred were encircled by 50 pianos. The pianists played out a piece called “11,000 Strings,” named for the number of strings in 50 pianos, each of which was tuned...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
A new discovery has revealed that relationships between fish and sea anemones are more diverse than those portrayed in Finding Nemo. It suggests that there the former may use the latter as a tool of self defense, while the latter uses the former as transportation....
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...
