Science and Technology Chronicles: August 2026

Monday, August 31, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 31st, 2026

Vol VII Issue 61

Who Said this?

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Today, 259 links Curated

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The FDA Just Approved The First US Freeze-Dried Plasma, Ready in Minutes

#Ezplaz #stored #transfusion #proteins

Magnetic Bacterium Extends Lifespan by 43% in Surprising Anti-Aging Study

#magnetotactic #ferroptosis #lipid #magnetosomes

Scientists discover diamonds can generate electricity

#deformation #membranes #piezoelectric #exfoliation

Coffee Drinkers Have Less Fat, More Muscle, And Surprising Sex Hormone Differences

#metabolites #cardiometabolic #hormones #SHBG

Scientists find why the liver may not heal even after you stop drinking

#middle state #RNA #ESRP2 #Mis-splicing

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Sunday, August 30, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 30th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 60

Who Said this?

Few societies have defended their own ignorance as aggressively or as enthusiastically as ours.

Today, 256 links Curated

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The universe is still speeding up, but nobody knows why1

#expansion #dark energy #measurements #acceleration

Your Gut Microbiome May Be Contagious

#transmission #biomarker #isolates #lineages

Tiny Wrinkles in Graphene Turn It Into a Battery

#flexoelectricity #geometry #nanowrinkles #curvature

Scientists Discover a Cannabis Receptor That Could Stop Breast Cancer Spreading

#plasticity #tumors #cannabinoid #CB2R

Abandoned Oil And Gas Pipes Are Still Contributing TONS of Microplastics Into The Ocean Each Year

#Decades #infrastructure #CTE #FBE

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Saturday, August 29, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 29th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 59

Who Said this?

Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

Today, 335 links Curated

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Researchers followed 400,000 kids for 20 years and found a lasting pre-K advantage

#academic #advantages #Teacher Training #classroom

Researchers Put Spinach Directly Into Bread And Saw The Body's Insulin Response Change

#enrich #white bread #insulin #gut-brain

Scientists Identify a Single Protein That May Control Cravings For Fatty Foods

#neural #protein #OPA1 #mitochondria

Australia’s red soil may be hiding a massive clean energy source

#iron-rich #hydrogen #Pilbara #magnetite

Brain scans reveal how artificial sweeteners affect our reward circuits differently than sugar

#hypothalamus #sweeteners #microbiome #sucrose

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Friday, August 28, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 28th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 58

Who Said this?

Our own desires stand between us and our Better Angels

Today, 373 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy at death in National Football League players

#NFL #CTE #hard-shell #dementia

Superheated steam could make industrial drying more sustainable

#Hot-air drying #moisture #burning #heat pump

Monkeys Just Challenged a Major Assumption About How Human Ancestors Climbed

#primate #climbs #LCA #bipedalism

Meet The Gaia Hypothesis: The Theory That Earth Regulates Itself Like a Living Thing

#interconnected #system #feedback #self-regulation

Two Opposing Quantum Particles Could Form a Bizarre New Kind of Matter

#bosons #fermions #pressure #droplets

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Thursday, August 27, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 27th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 57

Who Said this?

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

Today, 460 links Curated

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Turmeric compound may protect blood vessels from diabetes damage

#curcumin #inflammation #autoimmune #calcium

Electrically Charged Raindrops Can Corrode Metal in a Way We Never Knew About

#charged #water #dielectric breakdown #charge-induced

A Hidden Gut Reaction May Explain Why Vegetables Are So Good for You

#nitrate #iron #nonheme #DNIC

Your dislike of eating bugs may be 9,000 years old

#entomophagy #Culture #tartar #chitin

Tiny Stars Are Making the Early Universe Much Harder to Explain

#galaxies #stellar mass #mature #formation

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Wednesday, August 26, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 26th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 56

Who Said this?

All life is a preparation for something that probably will never happen.

Today, 454 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists Turn Red Strawberries White With a Single Gene Edit

#anthocyanin #MYB10-1B #polyploid #dominant

Newton’s 300-year-old law just passed its biggest test yet

#Gravity #Astrophysics #dark matter #ACT

A 35,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Pelvis May Explain Why Men and Women Walk Differently

#anatomical #evolutionary #biomechanical #hips

Atomic catalyst unlocks the hidden value of plant waste

#lignin #ruthenium #Ru-N4 #biomass

Your genes may decide whether a low-carb diet sends cholesterol soaring

#saturated fat #LDL #polygenic score #monitoring

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Tuesday, August 25, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 25th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 55

Who Said this?

Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent.

Today, 418 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Gut bacteria may unlock a hidden benefit of vegetables

#nitrate #Non-haem iron #DNIC #mechanism

Physicists Discover Time Crystals Can Communicate Across a Semiconductor

#electron #nuclear #spins #oscillators

An Active Volcano May Be Creating a Valuable Metal Deposit Deep Underground

#Soufrière Hills #fluids #seismic #hypersaline

Screen time at ages 1 and 6 may matter more than parents realize

#academic #working memory #development #relationship

Meet Orexin, The Brain Chemical Behind Staying Motivated

#neurons #expectations #behavior #Disrupted

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Monday, August 24, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 24th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 54

Who Said this?

One should only say good things about the dead. He's dead.... Good.

Today, 240 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists Just Made A Cookie Out of Recycled Plastic 'Slurry'.

#oxidative #hydrothermal #dissolution #PET

This common vitamin was linked to 13% better cognitive scores

#vitamin D #dementia #MCI #MoCA

Three Supermassive Black Holes Found in a Galaxy From the Dawn of the Universe

#J0148-4214 #Big Bang #redshift #spectrum

Broccoli for women, beans for men? Study reveals sex split over healthy diets

#cardiometabolic #legumes #cruciferous #risk

Immune Cells Revealed to Have a Unique Sense of Touch

#memory #T cells #effector #Naive

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Sunday, August 23, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 23rd, 2026

Vol VII Issue 53

Who Said this?

Take the risk of thinking for yourself; much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

Today, 240 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Exercise may work better for keeping weight off than losing it

#muscle #Aerobic #appetite #metabolic adaptation

Historians Called Them “Housekeepers” – but Roman Women Were Running Profitable Farms

#managers #vilica #Xenophon #Cato

There Are Fungi in The Ocean, And They May Be Way More Important Than We Realized

#marine #carbon cycle #amino acids #sequestration

Psychedelic raves act as a modern rite of passage with complex psychological effects, new research suggests

#arrive #return #interviews #sociability

These Babies Grew Up With Strict Sugar Limits. Decades Later, The Results Are Dramatic.

#long-tail #reduction #cancer #chronic disease

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Saturday, August 22, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 22nd, 2026

Vol VII Issue 52

Who Said this?

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

Today, 341 links Curated

Today's Five Links

New Technique Could Slash AI’s Memory Energy Use by Thousands of Times

#magnetic #flips #switching #nanojoules

Using thunderquakes to X‑ray Earth

#lightning #map #structure #seismic dispersion

Hidden Structures in Clouds May Solve a Longstanding Mystery About Rainfall

#warm clouds #CloudKite #microphysics #turbulence

We May Be Wrong About How the Brain Stores Memory

#synapses #dendritic spines #engrams #distributed

New Evidence Challenges What Experts Said About Working From Home

#remote #effective #connection #turnover

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Friday, August 21, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 21st, 2026

Vol VII Issue 51

Who Said this?

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Today, 411 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Your Liver Runs on a Clock – and It Could Change How We Treat Metabolic Disease

#schedule #proteins #signals #endostatin

Sea creature fossil preserves soft tissue for 450 million years

#crinoid #reefs #Dendrocrinus simcoensis #ecology

Scientists Revisited a Forest Experiment That Was Forgotten for 30 Years.

#mountain ash #logging #silviculture #thinning

Brain Scans Reveal a Striking Similarity Between Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder

#functional MRI #synchronization #communication #reduction

California’s Drought Irreversibly Damaged Sacramento Valley Aquifers

#Satellite data #Overpumping #collapse #subsidence

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Thursday, August 20, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .August 20th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 50

Who Said this?

When a population is dependent on a machine, they are hostages of the men who tend the machines.

Today, 417 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists Think Fungi Could Turn Martian Dirt Into Farmland

#regolith #beneficial #cycling #AMF

Decoding the Origins of Lightning’s Violent Currents

#Telegrapher #stroke #ionized #physics

Scientists Discover a New Organ Hiding in The Skull

#marrow #immune #neuroimmune #crossover

A mother’s age can shape her offspring without changing their DNA

#gene activity #age #epigenetic #histone

Scientists Find a Surprising Diabetes-Fighting Compound in Turmeric

#Curcumin #vascular #Type 1 #inflammation

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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

Today's Five Links

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

Today's Five Links

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

Today's Five Links

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

Today's Five Links

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

Today's Five Links

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

Today's Five Links

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