by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
For most kids, you can’t beat a trip to the zoo. And for those unfortunate kids whose immune systems are too weak to endure such an excursion, they now have the chance to experience it from their hospital beds. That’s thanks to a clever partnership involving the San...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Things are looking up in DR Congo’s Virunga Mountains, where recently scores of elephants have been returning across the border following a reduction in militia violence. Also this spring, there have been 9 healthy births recorded among the mountain gorillas,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
A recent international survey of a deep sea zone near Mexico turned up 24 species of shrimp-like animals called amphipods, including a whole new taxonomic family, called Mirabestiidae. The survey took place in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) between Hawaii and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
A phase 2 clinical trial in England has demonstrated smashing success in improving the conditions of children with a rare form of treatment-resistant epilepsy called Dravet syndrome. Believed to affect 3,000 children in England, it’s just one out of hundreds of forms...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
From central England comes the feel good story of a tiny pony rescued from disease whose winning and warming hearts of visitors at the rescue center where he was nursed back to health. Last March, Pickle the 9-month-old Shetland Pony was found critically ill after...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
A huge scientific survey of over 1 million German solar installations has revealed a surprising statistic: their potential to degrade year by year has been significantly exaggerated. Previous models have overestimated the rate of degradation in a solar installation’s...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
In 2021 GNN reported that a man diving off the Israeli coast discovered a sword from the Crusader period. All locked up in shells and sand, it looked like it could have been forged in mythical Atlantis, and even half-buried on the seabed, diver Shlomi Katzin couldn’t...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Just days before he left office, former Chilean President Gabriel Boric signed into law protections for the remote Juan Fernández Archipelago and a gargantuan swath of the surrounding sea. The protections connect the archipelago with the existing Nazca-Desventuradas...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
Australian researchers have developed and tested the world’s first quantum battery. Their prototype is far from anything that will be a perspective power source in an EV or storage facility, but the experiment revealed some important directions for future research. A...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
A teenage Texan has earned a commendation given fewer than 300 times in the history of the Boy Scouts after saving his scout leader from drowning in rapids. Devon Champenoy was one of several teen scouts from Houston rafting down class 3 rapids at a summer camp in...
