Science and Technology Chronicles: 2026

Sunday, July 05, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 5th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 5

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Our own desires stand between us and our Better Angels

Today, 194 links Curated

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A popular climate fix could accidentally trigger massive changes to global weather

#geoengineering #aerosol #ENSO #Brightening

Jellyfish Can Heal Wounds in Minutes. Scientists Want Their Secrets.

#hydrozoans #medusae #epithelial #actomyosin

Two People With Severe Autoimmune Disease in Remission After Immune 'Reset'

#neuromyelitis optica #alloHCT #stem cells #AQP4-IgG

Scientists discover the deep sleep circuit that builds muscle, burns fat, and boosts the brain

#hormone #activity #hypothalamus #locus coeruleus

The Webb Telescope has detected the same unexplained absorption signal on Pluto and Titan

#spectra #methane #nitrogen #tholins

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Saturday, July 04, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 4th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 4

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False Necessity is the Mother of Dumb Invention.

Today, 278 links Curated

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Could a daily cup of coffee protect the brain against depressive symptoms?

#Nutrition #Middle East #anxiety #adenosine

Scientists Discover the First-Ever Molecules Preserved Inside a 113-Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Fossil

#microbes #steroids #oxygen #mineralization

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Severe Depression by 70%, Major US Trial Finds

#treatment-resistant #vagus nerve #VNS #improvement

An Underground Mystery Had Engineers Stumped Until They Followed the Rain

#rainwater #airflow #mine safety #ventilation

Lost Dutch Gold Ship Identified After Nearly 400 Years

#gold coins #Dom van Keulen #1633 #Sa‘dian Sharifs

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Friday, July 03, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 3rd, 2026

Vol VII Issue 3

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Today, 426 links Curated

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Scientists discover a completely different way to fight viruses

#anemones #immune #protein #CARDIB

Scientists discover a surprising link between vitamin C and brain health

#brain #structure #network #DMN

Woman With Alzheimer’s Shows Striking Improvement After Taking Magic Mushrooms

#psilocybin #cognitive reserve #plaques #serotonin

Scientists Discover Wild Orangutans May Be Treating Themselves With Medicinal Plants

#Borneo #diet #self-medication #observations

Scientists make quantum time flow backward in stunning physics breakthrough

#protocols #qubits #symmetrical #stochastic

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Thursday, July 02, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 2nd, 2026

Vol VII Issue 2

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Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Today, 464 links Curated

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For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides

#membrane #synthetic #ribosomes #lipid

A Mysterious Circular Structure Buried Under the North Sea Has Revealed New Evidence of an Ancient Cataclysmic Event

#Silverpit Crater #impact #hypervelocity #crystals

Tolkien Reads from “The Hobbit” in Rare Archival Audio from His First Encounter with a Tape Recorder

#fantasy #recording #Sayer #Worcestershire

NASA Satellites Spot Rare Underwater Volcano Eruption That Could Create Earth’s Newest Island

#submarine #eruption #Bismarck Sea #plumes

Earthquake Researchers Discover Dangerous Stress Levels Building Beneath Southern California

#Cajon Pass #junction #plates #model

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Wednesday, July 01, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 1st, 2026

Vol VII Issue 1

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We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

Today, 442 links Curated

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Scientists Finally Uncover Why Gold Never Tarnishes

#surface #atoms #structures #oxygen

Ovaries Appear to Develop an Incredible Second Role After Menopause

#post-menopausal #proteins #Transcriptomic #paracrine

Scientists Discover Hidden Rule That Could Make Fuel Cells Cheaper and More Powerful

#dual-atom #dual-Sabatier #ORR #DigCat

Mysterious Global 'Hum' Has Tormented People For 50 Years – Scientists Think They May Have Found a Cause

#tinnitus #low-frequency #otoacoustic #subjective

Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Completely Eradicates 100% of Tumors After a Single Dose in Mice

#E. americana #organism #anaerobe #cytotoxic

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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 30th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 82

Who Said this?

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

Today, 414 links Curated

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Highly gendered languages are linked to larger personality differences between men and women

#encodes #gender #pronouns #grammatical

Japan's bold experiment to curb antibiotic misuse has been a huge success. Could it work in the US?

#nonbacterial #AMR #broad-spectrum #pediatric

Scientists Discover Surprising Way To Help the Brain Recover After Stroke

#circadian #waste #inflammation #glymphatic

Scientists say creatine may help fight depression

#energy #major depressive disorder #escitalopram #adenosine triphosphate

The International Space Station keeps leaking. So what happens now?

#Zvezda PrK #disintegration #leak rate #Haven

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Monday, June 29, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 29th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 81

Who Said this?

When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

Today, 249 links Curated

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Scientists Discover Ultrasound May Stop Arthritis Before It Starts

#low-intensity #immune cell #inflammation #repair

mRNA Vaccine Shrinks Deadly Childhood Cancer Tumors by 70%

#neuroblastoma #peptide #Glypican #nerve

These tiny soil microbes could rescue crops from salty farmland

#lignin #roots #microbiome #pseudomonads

Brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness

#language #unconscious #hippocampus #cognitive

Magic Mushroom Compound Could Offer a New Approach to Treating Chronic Tinnitus

#psilocybin #rebalance #maladaptive #sensory #processing

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Sunday, June 28, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 28th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 80

Who Said this?

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth & Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods

Today, 242 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists discover what triggers belly fat as we age

#stem cells #middle-age #metabolism #adipose

What Ozempic Does to the Gut-Brain Axis

#weight-loss #antidepressant #endocannabinoids #Lactobacillus delbrueckii

The human eye may hold the fix for self-driving cars

#vision #lighting #low-light #photomemristors

Hidden Virus May Have Infected 9.4 Million People

#Oropouche #neurological #modeling #Culicoides paraensis

Slow Breathing Can Rewire Your Brain and Change the Choices You Make

#Extended #exhalation #consciously #neurovisceral

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Friday, June 26, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 26th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 79

Who Said this?

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Today, 475 links Curated

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NASA’s Lucy finds a wobbling peanut-shaped asteroid with signs of ancient water

#Donaldjohanson #collision #sunlight #Trojan

Two-Century-Old Light Phenomenon Could Power the Next Generation of Communications and Data Storage Tech

#Poisson spots #skyrmions #diffraction #topological

New Discovery Could Unlock Quantum Computers the Size of a Coin

#magnons #magnetization #wavelengths #YIG

Asteroids May Have Delayed The Birth of Earth's First Continents

#Hadean eon #bombardment #Moon #mantle

Rumbles Deep Inside Mars Hint at a Vast, Ancient Magma System

#silica-rich #crust #mantle #ultramafic

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Thursday, June 25, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 25th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 78

Who Said this?

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself

Today, 351 links Curated

Today's Five Links

These 3 Common Sleep Habits May Be Aging Your Brain Faster

#range #napping #sleeplessness #seven hours

Perseverance Finds Complex Organic Compounds in Strange Mars Rocks

#Jezero #macromolecular #carbon #mudstone

Scientists identify an ancient brainstem network that acts as an attentional selection engine

#neurons #spatial #salience #behavioral

Mineral clocks reveal age of Earth's oldest known asteroid impact

#Pilbara #shatter cones #meteorite #Archean

A NASA satellite caught a giant tsunami doing something no one expected

#Kamchatka #rupture #SWOT #dispersive

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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 24th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 77

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When the resolution is insufficient, we SEE non-existing structures.

Today, 521 links Curated

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A tiny diamond defect could reveal a mysterious new kind of magnetism

#quantum #sensing #altermagnets #nitrogen

A Plastic Motor Just Defied a Century of Engineering Assumptions

#Electrostatic #low-voltage #actuation #perpendicular

Scientists just discovered how queen bees are really made

#royal jelly #royal cribs #environments #wax

A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading

#Sporothrix brasiliensis #yeast #dimorphic #sporotrichosis

Study challenges a common belief about vitamin D and sunlight

#deficiency #year-round #summer #immune

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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 23rd, 2026

Vol VI Issue 76

Who Said this?

World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation.

Today, 446 links Curated

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Butterfly that barely ages could help unlock longevity secrets

#Heliconius #lifespan #deterioration #pollen

Bones communicate with the rest of the body to support overall health

#dynamic #mineral #Osteocytes #signaling

More trees can mean fewer birds, new study reveals

#wetland #shelterbelts #open space #linear

Scientists Overturn 30 Years of Beliefs About Rare Immune Disease

#MKD #autoinflammatory #JAK inhibitors #Macrophages

Your Taste For Onions May Reveal Something About Your Future Health

#smell #taste #genes #OR2T6

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Monday, June 22, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 22nd, 2026

Vol VI Issue 75

Who Said this?

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

Today, 324 links Curated

Today's Five Links

'Critically stressed' US earthquake fault reaches 1,000-year pressure peak

#San Andreas #San Jacinto #Cajon Pass #rupture

Long-lived families reveal a rare genetic clue to healthy aging

#healthspan #CGAS #inflammatory response #mutation

Scientists Discover Immune Cells That Can Fight Both Measles and Nipah

#vaccine-induced #T cells #paramyxoviruses #Epitopes

Ancient Ice Man Still Hosts Mysterious Cold-Loving Organisms, Study Finds

#Ötzi #ecosystem #cold-adapted #yeasts

One common fat may fuel type 2 diabetes while another helps fight it

#palmitic acid #insulin resistance #oleic acid #inflammation

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Sunday, June 21, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 21st, 2026

Vol VI Issue 74

Who Said this?

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

Today, 231 links Curated

Today's Five Links

The secret language behind animal cooperation

#interspecies #conversations #relationships #shared goal

Hidden geological process offsets carbon emissions from thawing permafrost

#weathering #uptake #tracers #Microorganisms

Emerging nanotech could be the future of wound healing

#nanomaterials #activated #light #antimicrobial

Scientists discover neurons must break their DNA to build the brain

#cerebral cortex #double-strand #breaks #mechanical stress

Scientists Just Found Something Weird Inside Moss

#fungi #AMF #soil crusts #arbuscules

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Saturday, June 20, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 20th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 73

Who Said this?

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom

Today, 311 links Curated

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DNA time stamps reveal the strawberry’s surprising origins

#reconstruct #transposable #genome-merging #octoploid

This giant tropical fruit could help reverse gum disease damage

#jackfruit #pomegranate #simvastatin #periodontitis

Scientists Discover Inheritance That Breaks the Rules of Genetics

#epigenetic #patterns #paramutation #alleles

Plant hormones in mammals challenge view of cytokinins as purely botanical

#physiology #signaling #Microbiome #O-glucoside

Einstein’s “biggest blunder” may finally have an explanation

#cosmological constant #QFT #Hall #topology

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Friday, June 19, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 19th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 72

Who Said this?

You know you've created God in your image when He hates the same people you do.

Today, 382 links Curated

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Ancient DNA reveals plague was already killing humans 5,500 years ago

#Siberia #hunter-gatherer #sequencing #Yersinia pestis

Long gamma-ray bursts may trace collapsing stars rather than neutron-star mergers

#Long-duration #nucleosynthesis #collapsar #kilonovae-light

Estrogen levels in both the male and female brain may shape memory's resilience in face of stress

#Trauma #stressors #hippocampus #concentrations

Desert field test with NASA advanced rover prototype

#ERNEST #autonomy #shadows #mileage

A Surprising Discovery Challenges What Scientists Thought DNA Methylation Was For

#markers #anemone #jumping #epigenetic

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Thursday, June 18, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 18th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 71

Who Said this?

You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Today, 474 links Curated

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Humans may have hidden regenerative powers

#mammals #rebuild #two-stage #regrowth

Comb jelly embryos reveal embryonic signaling center shared across early animal evolution

#axes #signaling #cnidarians #multicellularity

Virus found hiding in gut bacteria linked to colorectal cancer

#microbial #imbalance #Bacteroides fragilis #prophages

Beyond bread and beer, alluring yeast species could yield new mosquito traps to combat malaria

#fungi #lure #Rhodotorula taiwanensis #Anopheles gambiae

Scientists discover how cortisol helps lock in early neural connections

#astrocytes #hormone #plasticity #Fos

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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 17th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 70

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Today, 436 links Curated

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Scientists just found a hidden weakness in forever chemicals

#UV #hydrogen radicals #PFAS #carbon-fluorine

Satellites Can Now Detect a City’s Hidden Vital Signs Before Humans Notice

#Urban Pulse #observations #Harmonized #CAPES

Are alien probes hiding in our backyard? A new study says we've barely looked

#technosignatures #matrix #passive #SETA

Rarest elements reveal planets eaten by white dwarfs

#boron #beryllium #spallation #metallicity

A daily probiotic may help relieve depression and anxiety

#gut-brain #microbiome #BDNF #biomarker

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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 16th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 69

Who Said this?

You have to be able to ignore the present in order to understand the future and the past.

Today, 533 links Curated

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The Link Between Vitamin C And Brain Health Just Got Even Clearer

#cerebrospinal #antioxidant #DMN #gray matter

Scientists discover how exercising muscles communicate with the brain to fight depression