by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
A real-world trial at Virginia Tech has shown that ordinary dogs and their owners can help combat a major invasive insect species from taking hold in their communities. The spotted lanternfly, native to Asia, was first detected in Pennsylvania in 2014. Since then,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
On an upper tributary of the mighty Yangtze River, the rolling back of 100 years of industrialization has allowed room for rare fish to reach ancestral spawning grounds. The longest-river in Asia, the Yangtze is dotted with literally thousands of dams and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Eleven years of cancer research has proven fruitful for a scientist at Johns Hopkins who uncovered a new tumor-suppressive response that could lead to novel therapies targeting hard-to-treat cancers. The new study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a sunny room in Fullerton, California, something magical is happening this summer: a group of high school girls is spending four weeks learning some new skills—not from YouTube, but from real grandmas. Every Tuesday and Thursday in July, the Golden Connections...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Kids these days, right? They spend too much time playing video games and not enough time outside. Tell that to grandmother Michelle Statham, and you’d expect her to agree with you. But in reality, her response would probably be something like “Which game?” From behind...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
From the Amazon Basin comes the story of a remarkable collaborative effort between 5 countries to break up criminal exploitation of the forest and its peoples. Thousands of live animals and tens of thousands of board-feet of illegally harvested timber were confiscated...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last week, the nation’s largest nonprofit focused exclusively on senior dogs announced it is awarding a record-breaking $1.57 million in grants to 119 animal welfare groups in United States. “If 50 is the new 30 for humans, why not for our older best friends?” asked...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
The video is harrowing. Smoke was billowing outside a Paris apartment window. Fire was raging inside. Two adults and four children were trapped. Fousseynou Cissé never hesitated once he saw them —even though the only escape route was a narrow ledge 65 feet in the air....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a development that could reduce the emissions that exacerbate humanity’s climate crisis, an international team of engineers may have created the whitest coating yet—with the help of artificial intelligence. Their new thermal coating could reduce energy bills...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred...
