by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
In 2021, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) tried to build a robot pollinator based on the anatomy of bees. Bees’ flight capabilities are quite sophisticated, but strangely, the MIT roboticists ended up building a robot that sported 8 wings...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
A rural village has led the transformation of a barren ravine into a flourishing forest mosaic in one of the least-habitable parts of their country. When Deng Xiaoping took control of Communist China in the 1970s, the land around the Mo Us desert was described by...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
At the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, innovators and motorsport experts competed to race solar-powered cars 2,000 miles across the Australian Outback. Reminiscent of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, when Interwar Period engineers tried to balance speed, maneuverability,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala have announced the creation of a “biocultural” reserve to protect a trinational area corresponding with the borders of the classical Mayan empire. The second-largest intact tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Maya Region stretches...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
A retired rugby star turned quadriplegic has made an unbelievable recovery from a broken neck to reach the peak of a previously unclimbed mountain in Asia. Ed Jackson became the first person to successfully ascend the unnamed, 15,485-foot-high peak in the Tien Shan...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Washington state, a new Public Lands Commissioner has announced that 77,000 acres of special forests will be taken off the state’s logging rotation for conservation purposes. These “legacy forests,” as they’re being called, are in a state of growth between...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Reprinted with permission from World at Large In Ghana, Kenya, Japan, Poland and probably other countries as well, it’s now the mosquitos who fear the sound of buzzing—from drones built to detect and destroy them. Economies of scale and widespread adoption has reduced...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Roman mosaic at the bottom of a bathing pool has come to light after 1,600 years, and seems to show that the modern “flip-flop” sandal has an archaic origin story. Far from being invented by Havianas, it seems they were long-established as standard bathhouse...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Lithuania, Welsh Corgi owners from around Europe came to celebrate the breed “and life in general” at the annual Corgi Race. Held in Vilnius for the fifth time, the Corgi Race is about as joyful an event as one could hope to see. The race is followed by a costume...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
A study team from Oxford University has identified a fermentation method that creates the perfect balanced diet for honey bees who can’t get enough natural pollen. Synthetic pollen substitutes are often fed to bees as a dietary supplement to natural pollen, but until...
