Science and Technology Chronicles: 2026

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 19th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 49

Who Said this?

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down.

Today, 459 links Curated

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Iron Ore Could Be Key to Sustainable and Lower-Cost Semiconductor

#iron ore #Pyrite #Semiconductor #taconite

Drones With Claws Perch on Arctic Icebergs

#arctic #climbing #robotics #drones

The Ancient Mediterranean Diet Wasn’t What You Think

#regional #bread #Galen #Pulses

Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see

#Traveling #electrical #computational engine #visual cortex

Scientists Identify a Surprising 129-Day Limit for Predicting the Weather

#solar radiation #boundary #information #predictability

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Tuesday, August 18, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 18th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 48

Who Said this?

Understanding is love’s other name.

Today, 416 links Curated

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Scientists turn DNA into a memory device that uses 100x less power

#synthetic #semiconductor #bio-hybrid #perovskite

Satellite Data Challenge the Two-Bulge Tide Model

#classical #Jason-3 #contradict #Tide gauges

The bacteria that make cheese taste so good may also benefit your gut

#artisan #Streptococcus thermophilus #propionic acid #Lactose

Water Detected Surprisingly Close to Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole

#white dwarf #JWST #dust #bow shock

Tiny New “Dragon” Discovered High in Thailand’s Mountain Forests

#lizard #agamid #mitochondrial #Tak-Kamphaeng Phet

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Monday, August 17, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 17th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 47

Who Said this?

Rejection is just a landing pad for your next takeoff.

Today, 276 links Curated

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Tiny graphene wrinkles create surprisingly powerful electrical effects

#curved #flexoelectricity #geometry #polarization

Physicists May Have Finally Found a Particle Made of Pure Force

#quantum #chromodynamics #glueball #X(2370)

Scientists Propose a New Test for Detecting Alien Life Unlike Anything on Earth

#agnostic #biosignature #complex #Assembly Theory

Scientists Solve a Vitamin B12 Mystery With an Unexpected Culprit

#bacteriophages #cobamides #recyclers #Ecosystems

Scientists Wiggled a Fish's Earbones With Light – And Changed Its Heartbeat

#laser #zebrafish #otoliths #mechanical

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Sunday, August 16, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 16th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 46

Who Said this?

Bankers are looting the world. You're not in the middle of a recession; you're in the middle of a robbery.

Today, 228 links Curated

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A 60-year-old theory about ants, bees and wasps may be wrong

#social #genetics #haplodiploid #Eusociality

Scientists Discover Hermit Crabs Doing a Job No One Expected

#Balanophora fungosa #Coenobita brevimanus #seeds #dispersers

Researchers Discover a Potential Weak Spot in One of the Deadliest Brain Cancers

#glioblastoma #protein #SET #PP2A

Coffee Drinkers Show Surprising Differences in Fat, Muscle, and Hormones

#Habitual #risks #metabolites #BMI

The common mistake that could make aging joints hurt more

#articular cartilage #Exercise #synovial fluid #osteoarthritis

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Saturday, August 15, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 15th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 45

Who Said this?

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Today, 298 links Curated

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Cancer Stem Cells Have an “Energy Addiction” – and Scientists Found a Way To Exploit It

#MDS #blood cancers #NAD #NAMPT

Scientists Have Found a Martian Meteorite Unlike Any Known Before

#Algeria #geological record #shergottites #neodymium

GLP-1s May Be Working in an Entirely Different Way Than We Thought

#hunger neurons #AgRP #mechanistic #semaglutide

We May Finally Know Why Mysterious Mushroom Fairy Rings Grow in Circles

#fungus #transplantation #transient-escape #Marasmius oreades

Scientists Turn One of the World’s Hardest-To-Recycle Plastics Into Engine Oil

#PVC #lubricants #polyalphaolefin #chlorine

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Friday, August 14, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 14th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 44

Who Said this?

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

Today, 469 links Curated

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Physicists Find Strong Evidence For What Really Holds Matter Together

#Particles #systems #baryon-number #antimatter

Empty Space May Not Be Empty After All

#magnetic field #light #birefringence #polarization

Microsoft Sees Windows on Fire, Pours Gasoline Over It

#internationally #markets #Price #OEMs

Designer Enzyme Strips Decades of ‘Rust’ From Aging Human Tissue

#Sugar #AGEs #CMLase #rejuvenation

A surprising brain discovery could help explain why we overeat fatty foods

#Obesity #appetite #OPA1 #metabolism

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Thursday, August 13, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 13th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 43

Who Said this?

What makes you think you can do a better job with life and genetics than God?" "We have computers"

Today, 403 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Exercise may help the aging brain “take out the trash”

#glymphatic #waste-removal #regulating #inflammation

Black holes older than the Big Bang could explain dark matter

#bounce #contracting phase #fossils #cosmology

Metal From Beyond Our World Found in Rings Worn by Ancient Mediterranean Elites

#Meteorites #pre-Greeks #iron #funerary

Scientists find evidence for two origins of life on Earth

#free-living #transitions #bacteria #archaea

A Key Atlantic Ocean Current Did the Opposite of What Scientists Expected

#Sediments #AMOC #Agulhas #Pliocene

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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 12th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 42

Who Said this?

I am only responsible for what I say, not what you understand.

Today, 473 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Robot Recycler Salvages Parts From Broken Machines

#robotics #recycling #industrial #icra

Million-Person Study Finds a Rare Gene Variant That Slashes the Risk of Diabetes and Heart Disease

#FNIP1 #cardiometabolic #PCSK9 #TG:HDL

No Palaces, No Pyramids: How This Ancient City Got Rich Without Inequality

#Mohenjo-daro #Indus #Gini coefficient #egalitarianism

Global warming is coming for the countryside

#heat island #high-resolution #model #Destination Earth

Using MapleLink for IoT Device Scanning

#Probing #On-Board #Data #Flash Storage

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 11th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 41

Who Said this?

Correct what you can; learn from what you can’t.

Today, 387 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Cassini reveals a surprising twist in Saturn’s magnetic shield

#magnetosphere #spin #charged material #cusp

Potatoes may have given Indigenous Andeans a digestive superpower

#DNA #starch-digestion #gene #AMY1

Schizophrenia’s Brain Damage May Start in One Key Region

#connections #Synapses #asymmetry #neurotransmitter

A Common Cholesterol Treatment May Also Remove PFAS And Microplastics From Blood

#apheresis #synthetic chemicals #double-filtration #lipoproteins

Tattoo Ink Isn't as Sterile as We Thought, And That's a Problem

#isolates #pathogens #contamination #bacteria

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Sunday, August 09, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 9th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 40

Who Said this?

The world is not driven by those who are right, but by those who are powerful enough to decide what is right.

Today, 234 links Curated

Today's Five Links

New fuel cell breakthrough could help power energy-hungry data centers

#catalyst #platinum #nanoparticles #carbon structure

What if The Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness? Scientist Proposes It Might Be The Fabric of Reality Itself

#neurons #neural circuits #analytic idealism #computation

The World's Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It's Quietly Wrecking Our Diets

#biodiversity #conserve #industrialization #genetic

A Brain Region May Link The 'Love Hormone' Oxytocin With Fear

#PVT #fear #extinction #thalamus

Father's Junk Food Habit May Shape His Unborn Baby

#ultra-processed foods #fetal development #epigenetic #sperm

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Saturday, August 08, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 8th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 39

Who Said this?

Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent.

Today, 328 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Cars Communicating Badly Is an Already-Solved Problem

#vehicle #networks #V2X #O-RAN

One of the Thinnest Transistor Interfaces Yet Could Reshape Future Chips

#channel #MoS2 #dichalcogenides #Dielectric

Common herb may help ease anxiety symptoms in patients with depression

#Ocimum basilicum #sertraline #Hamilton #extracting

Dark Matter May Be Leaving a Signal in Earth’s Atmosphere

#ultralight #axions #dark photons #Eskdalemuir

Sunlight creates quantum entanglement once thought to require lasers

#entangled #photons #natural light #incoherent

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Friday, August 07, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 7th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 38

Who Said this?

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

Today, 401 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities

#Forescout #cyberattacks #unauthenticated #CVE-2017-16740

Mars’ Doomed Moon May Be Hiding Evidence of an Ancient Catastrophe

#Phobos #Stickney Crater #gravitational field #asteroid

Painless microneedle tattoos from London startup CipherX

#patch #biodegradable #applicator #design selection

Gut Bacteria May Leave a Lasting “Protective Memory” in the Intestine

#fiber-derived #metabolite #butyrate #immunoregulatory

Wearable ultrasound patch boosts REM sleep without drugs or surgery

#bioelectronic #NEUSLeeP #emotion #disruptions

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Thursday, August 06, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 6th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 37

Who Said this?

Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world.

Today, 371 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Ancient Super-Eruptions May Have Frozen Earth for Centuries

#volcanic #Holocene #sulfur #glacier

Cell-inspired nanoreactor turns sunlight into hydrogen peroxide

#light-trapping #proton-shuttling #nanomaterials #biomimetic

Perseverance Finds Organic Carbon Preserved Just Beneath the Martian Surface

#SHERLOC #Bright Angel #MMC #biosignatures

Major study challenges long-held fears about acetaminophen and ibuprofen use in babies

#eczema #bronchiolitis #New Zealand #statistically

Brain Waves Once Dismissed As Noise May Help Build Our Reality

#electrical activity #eyes #traveling waves #cortex

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Wednesday, August 05, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 5th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 36

Who Said this?

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perserverance.

Today, 419 links Curated

Today's Five Links

A common sugar may help cancer cells break free and spread

#fructose #tumor #cholesterol #metastasis

An Ancient Poop Explosion Could Have Helped Complex Life Evolve

#Cambrian explosion #coprolites #organic matter #nutrients

Scientists Discover Extreme Acceleration Inside a Nuclear Fireball

#quark–gluon #plasma #hydrodynamics #QCD

A solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower arrive on the same day

#solar eclipse #Perseid #Venus #lunar eclipse

Sitting up straight may improve your mood and decision-making

#posture #ergonomics #emotional state #decision-making

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Tuesday, August 04, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 4th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 35

Who Said this?

We suffer more often in the imagination than in reality.

Today, 421 links Curated

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Giant waves are sweeping Mars’ atmosphere into space

#solar wind #plasma #magnetic field #Kelvin-Helmholtz

Ecosystems of Rock-Eating Fungus And Tardigrades Found Thriving Deep Within a Gas Shale

#Antrim #DNA #Agaricomycetes #enzymes

The System That Turned Paper Charts Into Digital Medical Records

#MIS-I #Datamation #Milestone #light pen

New Research Questions Decades of Low-Fat Dairy Advice

#full-fat #Insulin resistance #dairy matrix #structure

These Beautiful Flowers Can Paralyze You, but Their Chemistry Could Save Lives

#Wolfsbane #Larkspur #metabolites #Diterpenoid

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Monday, August 03, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 3rd, 2026

Vol VII Issue 34

Who Said this?

Things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable.

Today, 245 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming

#0.35°C #decade #quadratic #piecewise

When Gut Bacteria Run Out of Fiber, They May Start Eating You

#mucus lining #plant proteins #microbiome #Prif

Mathematicians prove perfectly fair elections are impossible

#electoral #proportional #representation #algorithm

Scientists Discover the Brain May Enter a New Biological Phase Between 50 and 75

#immune cells #genome #microglia #hippocampus

Without this protein, damaged muscle turns to fat and scar tissue

#TRF2 #muscle #muscular dystrophy #quadruplexes

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Sunday, August 02, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 2nd, 2026

Vol VII Issue 33

Who Said this?

To reach the source, you have to swim against the current. Only trash swims downstream.

Today, 212 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Photonic time crystal opens a new era of light control

#crenelated #terahertz #Metamaterial #nanostructured

Venus May Have Once Had Oceans Across 90% of Its Hot, Dry Surface

#volcanism #marine #polygonal #canali

Scientists found two mysterious ‘ghost’ ancestors hiding in our DNA

#lineages #interbreeding #hominin #super-archaic

Why Dreaming Leaves the Brain Running Low on Energy

#neurons #REM #pyruvate #Blood volume

Scientists Isolate Bacteria Behind The Immune System Farm Effect

#hygiene hypothesis #immune response #gram-positive #AhR

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Saturday, August 01, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 1st, 2026

Vol VII Issue 32

Who Said this?

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

Today, 322 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Major Volcano Is Hiding Two Active Magma Chambers

#Masaya #shield #Plinian #chambers

Scientists Turn Gut Bacteria Into Pancreatic Cancer Fighters

#Bifidobacterium longum #BifidoSumIL-2 #T cells #anaerobic

Scientists Reveal Hidden DNA Traces in the Shroud of Turin

#sequencing #mitochondrial DNA #metagenomic #microbiome

Scientists Reveal The Chain Reaction That Leads to Gluten Attacking The Gut

#Celiac #amplification #transglutaminase #interferons

What It Takes To Make a White Blood Cell Could Unlock New Cancer Treatments

#leukemia #precursor #progranulin #JAK2/STAT3

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Friday, July 31, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 31st, 2026

Vol VII Issue 31

Who Said this?

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Today, 387 links Curated

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American Heart Association Reveals How Much Coffee Is Safe for Your Heart

#400 mg #cardiovascular #antioxidant #anti-inflammatory

A unique antibody system may help explain bats' unusual tolerance of viruses

#vesper #immunity #proteins #chains

Scientists Pinpoint Where DNA First Opens

#helicase #MCM2-7 #Replication #genome

This game studio wants kids to help NASA build the first lunar colony

#Moonbase Y #August Interactive #educational #collaborative

A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return

#sediments #subsidence #inelastic #groundwater

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Thursday, July 30, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 30th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 30

Who Said this?

You know in high school if you didn’t believe in science or history, it was called failing.

Today, 489 links Curated

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Earth’s hidden “gold kitchen” lies beneath the seafloor

#submarine #volcanoes #Kermadec #subduction

Researchers May Have Solved a Two-Thousand-Year-Old Stellar Mystery Recorded by Ancient Astronomers