by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
A patient with type 1 diabetes has become the first in the world to produce his own insulin via transplanted cells edited with CRISPR. The edits halted his own immune system from attacking the cells, leading to production of insulin in the pancreas as if he never had...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
A planned community in Arizona has used time-honored Mediterranean strategies to keep temperatures down and attitudes high. Western civilization has grown remarkably climate conscious over the last 20 years, but not when it comes to building, civic planning, and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Australia comes the story of a Sikh’s kindness caught on camera when he thought no one was looking. With the heavens having opened, the man, a postal worker who had arrived at a house to deliver a package, took “one minute” to pull down the client’s laundry and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a “unique in the world” event, a Swedish town is moving its entire historic church, all 672 tons of materials, down the road to a new address. The move is necessary to protect it from falling into a sinkhole, the result of the expansion of an underground iron mine....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
After doing laundry last Saturday, Ken Porter noticed a missed call on his phone from the local police department. “When I returned the call, I learned that my 4-year-old had called 911 and struck up a conversation about soccer and swimming,” Micah’s father told GNN....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Cancer drugs that have been used for two decades were retooled until they were able to eliminate aggressive tumors in a “remarkable” clinical trial. Two of the patients—one with the deadliest form of skin cancer called melanoma and another with breast cancer—were told...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
A virus that infects the humble black-eyed pea plant is showing great promise as a low-cost, potent cancer immunotherapy—thanks to researchers at the University of California San Diego. The team led by chemical and nano engineers just published their study in Cell...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Craig Clark may call himself ‘the oldest computer technician in America’, but everyone else calls him the Tech Fairy because of all the wishes he has granted to strangers. In his field, as a technician, people sometimes give Craig their old computers after he sets up...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Two ten-year-old girls have recently conquered one of the world’s oldest board games, taking down two grandmasters in chess, men considered to be the kings of the sport. It all started at the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool, England earlier this month....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
A 93-year-old great-grandfather could be the oldest golfer in Britain to get a hole-in-one after achieving the feat in a recent round. Jack Ponsford notched the ace on a 135-yard third hole at Pannal Golf Club in North Yorkshire, England. It was his first ever...
