by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, stars, and even our own solar system’s planets. Now, the most expensive telescope ever made has unveiled a new trick—a coronagraph, which allows...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
There is no shortage of people in the world who see a burning building that isn’t theirs and choose not to risk their lives to help: Tomasz Zareba is not one of those bystanders. The Dublin truck driver helped save a man from a harrowing fall when the second-story...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Alabama will be the site of a new training camp for the next generation of female astronauts—funded and named in honor of one of the profession’s great pioneers. Okay, maybe next exactly, because the Nichelle Nichols Space Camp honors someone who pioneered an idea...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Ottawa comes the story of a runner who woke up in the hospital with a burning question: who saved his life? Tommy Chan went for a five kilometer run on May 20th, but he doesn’t remember anything several days either side of that. All he knows is what the doctors...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
For anyone who suggests that social media has been a net-negative for society, tell them to spend 3 hours reading GoFundMe stories. GNN has reported on literally dozens of these internet crowdfunding efforts that have changed people’s lives, and the latest one comes...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
A coalition of Japanese researchers and institutes have established that a pathway exists through which humble vitamin C can actually regenerate skin cells. As we age, our skin naturally becomes thinner and more fragile due to a decline in cell production. The...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
A southern Italian hamlet referred to as a ghost town is now attracting thousands of tourists by commissioning artists to paint more than 140 murals on the sites of shops and homes. It seems fitting that the birthplace of so many of the world’s great artists should...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a creative use of big data, a survey has found that of the 3,119 US counties, 1,836 experienced growth and expansion of tree cover, with a high concentration among prairie and Mid-West areas. Additionally, among counties that had thinning forests, the mean tree...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
When 29-year-old Luka Kriszanac arrived back at University of Penn. Medicine and got to see his surgery team, it was all smiles and handshakes. That’s more remarkable than it sounds, since the surgery he underwent was a “vascularized composite allotransplantation,” or...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
A woman who went to Iran as a tourist just weeks before the country descended into war says it was not the culture she expected. Chiara Herlemann, who is originally from Germany, travelled across the Middle Eastern country for ten days at the end of May. Before...
