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...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Scientists in Scotland recently engineered bacteria to be able to turn plastic into a precursor to the painkiller acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol. Though far from scalable at the moment, the reaction nevertheless underpins a potential starting point for...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Western India, bamboo is being used to rejuvenate lands choked with ash from thermal power plants. One of the largest coal-burning nations owing to its large population and drive for economic development, India has nevertheless likely contaminated thousands of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Following eight years of excavations, research, and interpretation, a newly-discovered ancient settlement in Peru has been opened to visitors. First inhabited some 3,800 years ago north of the modern-day capital Lima, Peñico is believed to have linked remote Andean...
