SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .February 21st, 2026

Vol V Issue 42

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

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Today, 397 links Curated

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Artificial sweeteners spark more intense brain activity than real sugar

#metabolism #Alpha #Delta #EEG

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Scientists Think Greenland's Ice Is Churning Like Molten Rock

#radar #convection #geodynamics #upwellings

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'Universal' nasal-spray vaccine protects against viruses, bacteria and allergens in mice

#GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA #coronaviruses #mites #adaptive

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What is a 'seesaw protein' that switches functions by changing shape?

#amino acids #three-dimensional #atomic force #Anfinsen's dogma

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A hidden reason inner ear cells die—and what it means for preventing hearing loss

#hair cells #stereocilia #channels #membrane

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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .February 19th, 2026

Vol V Issue 41

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Who Said this?

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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Today, 498 links Curated

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Today's Five Links

A spinning gyroscope could finally unlock ocean wave energy

#flywheel #precession #absorption #resonant

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Supercomputers simulated the orbits of 1 million satellites between Earth and the moon — and less than 10% survived

#megaconstellations #Kessler syndrome #cislunar #Quartz and Ruby

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Microsoft’s new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass

#Archival storage #femtosecond lasers #density #voxel

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What’s Causing Antarctica’s Strange “Gravity Hole”? Scientists Finally Solve the Mystery

#climate #density #height #gravity field

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New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater

#wet #Sodium Vanadium Oxide #NVOH #desalination

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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .February 17th, 2026

Vol V Issue 40

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Who Said this?

Society is indeed a contract; between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

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Today, 345 links Curated

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Today's Five Links

A Wearable Textile Sensor Sets New Standard for Continuous Heart and Vessel Monitoring

#electrophysiological #sleeve #electrical #blood-flow

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A Massive Star Suddenly Vanished and Left a Black Hole Behind

#core #collapse #M31-2014-DS1 #convection

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How a Single Gene Keeps Melon Fruits in Check

#causal genes #CmFUL1 #regulator #elongation

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Massive magma surge sparked 28,000 Santorini earthquakes

#Aegean Sea #Kolumbo #Hellenic arc #InSAR

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Vanishing lakes in Tibet may have triggered earthquakes by awakening faults in Earth's crust

#faults #weight #Lake Nam #crust

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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .February 16th, 2026

Vol V Issue 39

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Who Said this?

My best teacher is my last mistake.

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Today, 333 links Curated

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Today's Five Links

Aging Rewrites the Brain’s Protein Code – and Scientists Just Found the Switch

#tagging #degradation #ubiquitylation #proteasome

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Scientists discover the enzyme that lets cancer rapidly rewire its DNA

#chromothripsis #N4BP2 #tumors #genome rearrangement

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Sea Levels Are Rising Globally. Around Greenland, They're Projected to Fall.

#modeling #thermal expansion #glacial ice #weight

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Microbes harvest metals from meteorites aboard space station

#platinum group #biomining #BioAsteroid #carboxylic acids

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Lab grown human spinal cord heals after injury in major breakthrough

#inflammation #glial scar #organoids #neurites

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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .February 15th, 2026

Vol V Issue 38

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Who Said this?

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

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Today, 244 links Curated

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Today's Five Links

One of the ocean's saltiest regions is freshening: What it means for circulation

#Indian Ocean #salty #wind #freshwater

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Scent analysis reveals the composition of ancient Egyptian embalming materials

#VOCs #embalming #GC/MS #profiles

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Porous material uses green and blue light to repeatedly store and release CO₂

#visible light #PAFs #molecular switches #light-driven

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Replacing humans with machines is leaving truckloads of food stranded and unusable

#digital #supply-chain #AI #overrides

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A Spacecraft Flew Closer to the Sun Than Ever – and Is Rewriting a Century-Old Mystery

#Parker Solar Probe #solar wind #space weather #chromosphere

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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .February 14th, 2026

Vol V Issue 37

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Who Said this?

One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.

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Today, 335 links Curated

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Today's Five Links

Unprecedented spike in atmospheric methane during the COVID-19 pandemic has a troubling explanation

#methane #nitrous oxides #reduction #hydroxy radicals

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*Tiny, 45 base long RNA can make copies of itself *

#copying #polymerase #ligase #QT-45

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A microfluidic chip for one-step detection of PFAS and other pollutants

#analytical device #solids #LLME #trap-based

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Exchanging Saliva May Help You Fall in Love

#influencer #microbes #intimacy #exchange

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Scientists Finally Solve the Mystery Behind Rare COVID Vaccine Blood Clots

#adenovirus #antibodies #blood proteins #VITT

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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .February 13th, 2026

Vol V Issue 36

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Who Said this?

Though I am an old man, I am forever a young gardener.

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Today, 507 links Curated

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Today's Five Links

Polymers from earth can make cement more climate-friendly

#clinker #geopolymers #silicon #aluminum

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Scientists discover hidden trigger behind achilles pain and tennis elbow

#HIF1 #tendons #tendinopathies #collagen

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Scientists Caught Sperm Ignoring a Major Physical Law

#viscous fluids #Newton's Third Law #non-reciprocal #flagellum

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Scientists discover hidden brain cells that help heal spinal cord injuries

#astrocytes #CCN1 #debris #fibers

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Sunlight extracts oxygen from regolith using solar chemistry

#CaRD #carbothermal #oxidation #reduction

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