Science and Technology Chronicles: December 2025

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 31st, 2025

Vol IV Issue 56

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I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

Today, 320 links Curated

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Tractor beams inspired by sci-fi are real, and could solve the looming space junk problem

#electrostatic #tractor beam #attraction #electron gun

Scientists stunned by a massive hydrothermal field off Greece

#Milos #vent #Gulf-Fyriplaka #graben

Time runs faster on Mars and scientists just proved it

#faster #fluctuate #gravity #orbital motion

Can beavers help heal burn scars after wildfires? Researchers build their own dams to find out

#beaver dams #burn scars #post-wildfire #sediment

Wind-battered Lick Observatory rushes to shield historic telescope after dome damage

#Mount Hamilton #wind #Great Lick #Refractor

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Monday, December 29, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 29th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 55

Who Said this?

In God we trust; all others must bring data.

Today, 388 links Curated

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New Study Reveals Diabetes Physically Rewires the Human Heart

#cells #muscle #cardiomyopathy #fibrous

Scientists uncover why mRNA COVID vaccines can trigger heart inflammation

#two-stage #immune response #myocarditis #Cardiac troponin

Hidden heat beneath Greenland could change sea level forecasts

#models #simulations #lateral variations #interaction

Mini brains reveal clear brain signals of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

#timing changes #Electrical Biomarkers #firing spikes

Critical minerals are hiding in plain sight in U.S. Mines

#secondary minerals #metals #geochemical #tailings

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Thursday, December 25, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 25th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 54

Who Said this?

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Today, 289 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists discover the secret visual language of deer

#ultraviolet #photoluminescent #lignin #terpenes

Researchers Finally Prove “Crazy” Vitamin B1 Theory From 1958

#thiamine #carbene #water-stable #steric

Anode-Free Battery Doubles Electric Vehicle Driving Range

#lithium #cathode #RH #DEL

Scientists Print Working Electrodes Directly on Skin With Light

#conductive plastics #conjugated polymers #polymerization #transport

New analysis brings space mining closer to reality

#carbon-rich #C-type #Carbonaceous chondrites #regolith

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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 24th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 53

Who Said this?

To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears

Today, 371 links Curated

Today's Five Links

MIT scientists strip cancer of its sugar shield

#glycans #lectins #PD-1 #PD-L1

Tiny implant 'speaks' to the brain with LED light

#BMI #scalp #neurons #NFC

New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas

#multi-pass #hydrogen #aerogel #methane pyrolysis

This tiny peptide could help stop brain damage after injury

#CAQK #inflammation #cell death #TBI

Are they really listening? Watch their blinks

#marker #focused listening #cognitive processes #backround noise

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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 23rd, 2025

Vol IV Issue 52

Who Said this?

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Today, 378 links Curated

Today's Five Links

A Common Vitamin Could Help Protect Your Lungs From Air Pollution

#Vitamin C #PM2.5 #mitochondria #inflammation

MIT Reveals How High-Fat Diets Quietly Prime the Liver for Cancer

#hepatocytes #tumorigenesis #transcription factors #inflammation

2,300-year-old Celtic gold coins found in Swiss bog

#Celtic coins #stater #Gold #triskele

Graphene supercapacitor breakthrough could boost energy storage in future EVs and other household devices

#high-capacity #fast-charging #energy storage #M-rGO

A New Theory Suggests Mass May Emerge From Invisible Dimensions

#hidden dimensions #geometric torsion #continuum #G₂–Ricci flow

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Monday, December 22, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 22nd, 2025

Vol IV Issue 51

Who Said this?

The curse of man, and cause of nearly all of his woes, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

Today, 445 links Curated

Today's Five Links

What scientists found inside Titan was not what anyone expected

#slushy interior #gravity #Cassini-Hyugens #simulation

Hidden seismic signals hint at a tsunami threat in Alaska

#landslide #seasonal #landslide-driven #pulses

Hidden Infections May Be the Missing Link in Long COVID

#co-infections #SARS-CoV-2 #biological drivers #Epstein-Barr

Artificial metabolism turns waste CO₂ into useful chemicals

#formate #acetyl-CoA #malate #synthetic biology

PFAS concentrations can double with every step up the food chain

#meta-analysis #polyfluoroalkyl #food webs #magnification

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Saturday, December 20, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 20th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 50

Who Said this?

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Today, 399 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Neurons aren’t supposed to regrow but these ones brought back vision

#traumatic brain injury #connections #adapt #sprouting

Gum Disease Linked to Heart Risks

#ASCVD #periodontal #oral hygiene #inflammatory markers

NASA’s PUNCH Spies Comet Lemmon

#C/2025 A6 #solar wind #tail #Polarimeter

Surprising new insights from Germany's largest seismological experiment

#Eifel #distributed volcanic fields #magma reservoir #continental plates

Stop wasting time on these 5 Windows maintenance tasks

#Storage Sense #registry #defragmentation #antivirus

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Thursday, December 18, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 18th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 49

Who Said this?

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Today, 477 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Top Linux Distributions for Beginners

#user-friendly #Windows #MacOS #USB

Scientists rewired Down syndrome brain circuits by restoring a missing molecule

#pleiotrophin #astrocytes #viral vectors #plasticity

Saturn's largest moon may be riddled with 'slushy tunnels' that contain alien life, new study hints

#slushy tunnels #meltwater #aquifers #Cassini

New Pill Could Finally Treat Sleep Apnea Without a Mask

#sulthiame #masks #double blind #pharmacological

Deep ocean earthquakes drive Southern Ocean's massive phytoplankton blooms

#iron #Productivity #seismicity #limiting nutrient

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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 17th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 48

Who Said this?

Speed never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary; That's what gets you

Today, 442 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Deep sleep reorganizes brain networks used for memory recall

#electroencephalography #memory retention #slow wave #parietal

Drone-mounted lab monitors fertilizer runoff in real time

#nitrate-monitoring #lab-on-a-drone #runoff #remote control

This New Protein Grown From Carrot Waste Won Over Taste Testers

#fungal protein #side stream #mycelium #Pleurotus djamor

Plant-based plastic is fully saltwater degradable and leaves behind zero microplastics

#carboxymethyl cellulose #guanidinium #choline chloride #CMCSP

Novel Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe instrument delivers first-light data

#CoDICE #IMAP #heliosphere #ion species

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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 16th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 47

Who Said this?

Spam and phishing are a tax on stupidity

Today, 451 links Curated

Today's Five Links

ADHD Isn’t Just a Deficit: New Study Reveals Powerful Psychological Strengths

#personal strengths #neurotypical #adults #skills

5 genetic 'signatures' underpin a range of psychiatric conditions

#genetic variants #pathways #shared #psychiatric

Psilocybin Breaks Depressive Cycles by Rewiring The Brain, Study Suggests

#psilocybin #Rumination #focus #feedback

Scientists find the missing links between genes and disease

#logic #risk #genetic mapping #genomic mapping

This rare earthquake did everything scientists hoped to see

#Myanmar #mature faults #surface #fault systems

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Friday, December 12, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 12th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 46

Who Said this?

Self~respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Today, 480 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Polar bears may be adapting to survive warmer climates, says study

#temperatures #DNA #southeastern Greenland #jumping genes

Ancient undersea wall dating to 5,800 BC discovered off French coast

#Ile de Sein #coastal societies #granite #technical know-how

Scientists find dark chocolate ingredient that slows aging

#theobromine #cocoa #Biological age #DNA methylation

A healthier sugar substitute: Engineered bacteria yield a sweet solution

#tagatose #Escherichia coli #Gal1P #blood glucose

These Bald Eagles fly the wrong way every year and stun scientists

#Haliaeetus leucocephalus #southbound pattern #emigrate #exploratory

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 10th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 45

Who Said this?

Science is the engine of prosperity.

Today, 454 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Small root mutation could make crops fertilize themselves

#barley #symbiosis #nitrogen #Lotus japonicus

Pompeii construction site confirms recipe for Roman concrete

#hot mixing #self-healing #De architectura #lime clasts

Massive Study Reveals Where Gout Comes From, And It's Not What We Thought

#genetics #driver #uric acid #joints

Living at High Altitudes Induces Remarkable Changes in How Genes Behave

#Ecuadorian Andes #follistatin #epigenetic changes #methylome

New NASA Sensor Goes Hunting for Critical Minerals

#AVIRIS-5 #ER2 #black silicon #GEMx

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Tuesday, December 09, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 9th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 44

Who Said this?

Some rob me with a six gun, some rob me with a fountain pen.

Today, 441 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Psilocybin helps the brain unlearn fear by silencing specific neural pathways

#Anxiety #Psilocybin #suppression #traumatic

Gut molecule shows remarkable anti-diabetes power

#trimethylamine #IRAK4 #choline #microbiome

Neuroscientists discover that letting the mind wander may aid passive learning

#Memory #Neuroimaging #passive #active

Teen Beats Deadly Leukemia With Life-Saving Gene-Edited Cell Therapy

#CAR #T-cell #genome-edited #lymphoblastic

Study Reveals Surprisingly Obvious Reason Why Exercise Reduces Cancer Risk

#metabolic #muscle #mTOR #fitness

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Monday, December 08, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 8th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 43

Who Said this?

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Today, 318 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Lost Indigenous settlements described by Jamestown colonist John Smith finally found

#Rappahannock #Indigenous #Fones Cliffs #villages

Study measuring impacts of deep-sea mining machine finds abundance of animals at the site decreased by 37%

#macrofaunal #biodiversity #impacts #abyssal

Scientists uncover a volcanic trigger behind the Black Death

#grain #fleas #tree rings #ice cores

New Paper-Thin Brain Implant Could Transform How Humans Connect With AI

#BISC #wireless #paper-thin #BCI

Adrift like Shackleton: Robot float survives Antarctic ice

#Argo Float #Ice shelf #Denman Glacier #circulation

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Sunday, December 07, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 7th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 42

Who Said this?

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Today, 232 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Gene editing creates compact goldenberry plants suitable for large-scale farming

#CRISPR #35% shorter #Physalis peruviana #ERECTA

Deep-Ocean Carbon Fixers Overturn Long-Held Climate Assumptions

#nitrogen #DIC #fixation #heterotrophs

Laughing Gas Can Offer Immediate Relief From Depression, Study Finds

#Nitrous Oxide #MDD #blood flow #glutamatergic

Bio-hybrid robots turn food waste into functional machines

#langoustine #exoskeletons #elastomer #natural variation

Grim Signals of Future Antimicrobial Resistance Found Lurking in Sewage

#antimicrobial resistance #ARGs #functional metagenomics #latent reservoir

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Saturday, December 06, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 6th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 41

Who Said this?

Reality is what you can get away with.

Today, 332 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists Uncover Massive Hydrothermal Field in the Mediterranean.

#vent field #Milos Island #METEOR #active fault

Giant sunspot on par with the one that birthed the Carrington Event has appeared on the sun.

#AR 4294-4296 #cluster #sunspots #intertwined

Recoil chemistry could lower medical imaging costs.

#Cu-64 #CU-63 #recoil #metal–organic

Complex Life May Be a Billion Years Older Than We Thought.

#nucleated #oxygen levels #mitochondria #Great Oxidation Event

Programmable CRISPR platform can reduce stem cell differentiation from months to weeks.

#Cellgorithm #programmable #encoding #stem cell-based

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Thursday, December 04, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 4th, 2025

Vol IV Issue 40

Who Said this?

Only in a police state is the job of policeman easy.

Today, 477 links Curated

Today's Five Links

A long-overlooked weak point in your DNA has just been revealed.

#mosaic mutations #cancer #brain function #limb development

Paper Mill Trash Could Be the Secret to Cheap Clean Energy.

#nanoparticles #carbon fibers #hydrogen #NiO/Fe3O4@LCFs

A Mysterious Ring of Pits Near Stonehenge Provides Clues About Life in Neolithic Britain.

#sedaDNA #OSL #Durrington Walls #ritual

Astrobotic lunar surface sensor to track cislunar traffic and security.

#Clavius-S #visible-band #imaging #distributed

New Tick-Borne Disease Discovered in Dogs May Pose a Risk to Humans.

#R. finnyi #Rickettsia rickettsii #genome alignment #reservoir

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Wednesday, December 03, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 3rd, 2025

Vol IV Issue 39

Who Said this?

Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

Today, 497 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Producing “Green” Methanol From Syngas, Derived From Anaerobic Digestion Biogas.

#catalytic decomposition #Graaf #ammonia #valorization

Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples.

#ribose #glucose #nucleobases #phosphates

Scientists discover first gene proven to directly cause mental illness.

#GRIN2A #polygenic #schizophrenia #L-serine

Scientists Uncover New Evidence of Ancient Airbursts That Ravaged Earth Without Leaving Craters

#ephemeral #Younger Dryas #fragmented #shocked quartz

Our Brains Really Do 'Sync Up' When We Collaborate, Study Reveals.

#flow #in sync #neurological #synchronicity

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Monday, December 01, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .December 1st, 2025

Vol IV Issue 38

Who Said this?

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.