by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
The story of how Sphenodraco scandentis came to be known is one for the ages: involving lies and deceit, and the well-trained eye of a brilliant paleontology student. Ph.D. student Victor Beccari couldn’t shake the feeling he had seen the fossil before: it was a slab...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Scientists have found that plants make a series of sounds that indicate they are under duress, and that certain animals have evolved to hear these and react to them. Described as a “vast, unexplored field,” the phytoacoustics are inaudible to the human hear, but...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Bat boys often blend into the background, becoming bit players in the operations of a major league baseball game. But the Philadelphia Phillies recently gave their bat boy, Adam Crognale, the star treatment, creating a hype video that helped get him elected to this...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
A German backpacker lost for 12 days in the Australian outback has survived and spoken out regarding her traumatic experience. Carolina Wilga’s disappearance gripped the nation after her friends and family lost contact with her in late June and her van was discovered...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created something 225-times the size of our Sun. It’s the largest such event ever detected in the history of gravitational wave astronomy, and pushed...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the Maldives, a mobile coral spawning system has been trialed with scintillating success, as 10,000 juvenile corals were grown by local operators. It represents not only a major hope that island nations can abate the loss of coral reefs, but also that the spawning...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
From the shores of Newfoundland to the shores of Ireland comes the story of two young lovers frozen in time within the blue glass of a wine bottle. Separated by 5 time zones, 1,800 miles, and 13 years, the humble message in a bottle proves once again to have a unique...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
There are roughly 1,000 native bird species in the 50 States, and if you stand long enough on the walkways of Boston’s Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, you could see around one-fourth of them. This protected Mid-Atlantic salt marsh remnant has recorded an astonishing 271...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology had been made down in Belize, as the royal tomb of a major city’s first-known ruler is discovered by a husband-wife archaeology team. Buried with elaborate jade, ceramics, and symbolic artifacts, the tomb offers unprecedented...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Camera trap footage has conservationists celebrating what are probably the first pine martens born in southwest England in over 100 years. Their births follow a “pioneering” reintroduction project that sought to rebalance the predator-prey dynamics of a wild England...
