Science and Technology Chronicles: September 2026

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 30th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 91

Who Said this?

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

Today, 442 links Curated

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Melting Permafrost Is Poisoning Rivers With Metal Levels 70 Times Higher Than Normal

#Brooks Range #plumes #rust #acidic

Ocean heatwaves are hiding months of extra warming

#underestimate #stress #ecosystems #cumulative

Alzheimer's Might Actually Be a Third Type of Diabetes

#dementia #insulin #signaling #neurodegeneration

Forget Solar Panels: There’s a Whole New Way to Convert Sunlight into Energy

#solar-powered #hydrogen #Electrocatalysis #metal-organic

Popular Supplement Could Have an Unexpected Downside

#omega-3 #eicosapentaenoic #docosahexaenoic #tau

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Tuesday, September 29, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 29th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 90

Who Said this?

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

Today, 432 links Curated

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Scientists Find a “Pain Switch” That Could Shut Down Arthritis Pain

#TRPM2 #autoantibodies #inflammation #prostaglandin E2

The Age You Reach Menopause May Be Linked to Your Future Brain Health

#estrogen #Alzheimer #volume #hyperintensities

This suitcase-sized spacecraft could hear the universe before stars existed

#CosmoCube #dark matter #21 centimeter #radiometer

Dark Matter May Behave Like Waves and a Distant Quasar Could Prove It

#lensing #ultralight #fuzzy #simulations

Scientists find new virus behind mysterious tick illness

#ALTNV #coinfections #hemorrhagic #Nairoviridae

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Monday, September 28, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 28th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 89

Who Said this?

I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.

Today, 314 links Curated

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Scientists say house cats could help unlock better cancer treatments for humans

#genetics #cancer #feline #FBXW7

Physicists Created a Record-Breaking Schrödinger's Cat With Some of The Weirdest Atoms in Physics

#superposition #Rydberg #boundary #blockade

Printable 'smart' clothing cools its wearer and generates electricity

#ZrO₂ #nanocomposite #passive #biomechanical

The Sun And Moon Can Trigger Earthquakes, And Scientists May Finally Know How

#lunisolar #stresses #resonance #perturbation

Earth's Mysterious Black Diamonds May Have Begun With an Ancient Cosmic Impact

#carbonado #porous #subduction #anatase

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Sunday, September 27, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 27th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 88

Who Said this?

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Today, 199 links Curated

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Dreaming may drain the brain’s energy even as fuel supply rises

#REM #ATP #energy #blood volume

Autism Study Reveals Two Opposing Molecular Patterns in the Brain

#ASD #transcriptomes #mutations #RNA-sequencing

A major risk of breast cancer screening may have been overestimated for decades

#mammograms #overdiagnosis #population-based #randomized

Babies Conceived Through IVF May Carry a Hidden Signature in Their DNA

#assisted #reproduction #jumping genes #LINE-1

A Diamond Smaller Than a Grain of Rice Could Transform Heart Monitoring

#quantum #sensors #Magnetocardiography #biocompatibility

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Saturday, September 26, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 26th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 87

Who Said this?

...either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Today, 330 links Curated

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The Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest

#subduction #zone #Vancouver Island #imaging

Scientists Hunt for Tiny Black Holes Hidden in LHC Collisions

#quantum gravity #protons #unifying #decay

How to Speak Forest

#science #memoir #etymology #ecology

A New RNA Strategy Could Target Thousands of Genetic Disorders

#tRNA #mutations #full-length #protein

Popular Supplement Increases Strength Even Without Exercise, Study Shows

#creatine #muscle mass #fat #strength

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Friday, September 25, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 25th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 86

Who Said this?

Achievement is talent plus preparation.

Today, 393 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Jupiter Handles the Solar Wind in a Way Scientists Didn’t Expect

#Juno #bow shock #solar wind #magnetosphere

Pancreatic Cancer Disappears in Mice After New mRNA Immunotherapy

#cocktail #cytokines #antigens #durable

Scientists Burned Their Own Scrolls. Then The Hidden Writing Lit Up

#Herculaneum #papyrus #Greek literature #lead

Human Sperm Is Rewriting DNA Earlier Than We Realized

#meiosis #non-crossover #chromosome #recombination

Scientists gave worms magnetic bacteria. They lived 43% longer

#AMB-1 #Caenorhabditis elegans #ferroptosis #Magnetotactic

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Thursday, September 24, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 24th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 85

Who Said this?

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Today, 442 links Curated

Today's Five Links

First stellar stream beyond the Milky Way could reveal dark matter

#gravitational structure #stellar streams #ultra-diffuse #tidal stripping

fMRI study of mescaline reveals altered sensory filtering and brain networks

#cerebellum #hyperconnectivity #5-HT2A #hypoactivation

These tropical trees breathe at night to survive drought

#Clusia #stomata #CAM #polyploids

Surprising Diabetes Study Finds Tighter Blood Sugar Control May Come With a Hidden Cost

#CGM #normoglycemia #variability #strictly

When what you see doesn’t make sense, your brain does something remarkable

#matching #conflicting #consensus building #V1-LM

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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 23rd, 2026

Vol VII Issue 84

Who Said this?

Reality is what you can get away with.

Today, 485 links Curated

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The end of humanity? What would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted now

#super-eruption #swarms #caldera #phreatomagmatic

Briny “Death Pools” Hold Clues to Early Life

#extremophiles #metagenomics #metatranscriptomics #microbial mat

Coffee doesn’t have to keep you awake to disrupt your sleep

#Caffeine #deep sleep #electroencephalography #slow-wave

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

#hypothalamus #ventral tegmental #allulose #blood flow

Small undersea volcanoes may unleash outsized tsunamis

#Hunga #caldera #collapse #pyroclastic

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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 22nd, 2026

Vol VII Issue 83

Who Said this?

Oppressive gov't doesn't begin with one big dictator but with ten thousand little ones.

Today, 354 links Curated

Today's Five Links

How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution

#sequences #transposons #genome #coevolutionary entanglement

Biggest Supernova Dataset Yet Challenges Dark Energy Theory

#catalog #Type Ia #supernovae #DESI

Stem cells reverse stroke damage and restore movement in mice

#neurons #inflammation #neural #stem cells

Astronomers Detect Radio Signals Coming Directly From an Exoplanet For The First Time

#auroras #atmosphere #magnetic field #bursts

Stress Hormone Cortisol Rewires the Brain to Strengthen Emotional Memories

#intensity #memory #MRI #connectivity

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Monday, September 21, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 21st, 2026

Vol VII Issue 82

Who Said this?

...If something can go wrong, it will go wrong at exponentially increasing rates

Today, 302 links Curated

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Scientists Link “Lonely” Sleep Waves to Memory Decline With Age

#tau #non-REM #slow #EEGs

Engineered Probiotic Wipes Out 43% of Colorectal Tumors in Mice

#precision #probiotic bacteria #immune #Escherichia coli Nissle 1917

Five Very Different Diseases May Share a Hidden Biological Link

#folds #sequence #networks #signaling

A new process turns plastic waste into gasoline and diesel fuel

#polyethylene #molten salts #aluminum #hydrogen

Astronomers Expected More Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune – Webb Found Something Else

#scarcer #formation #TNO #light

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Sunday, September 20, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 20th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 81

Who Said this?

I pray these selfstyled patriots, once in office, will see that solid obstruction is, right now, a form of treason.

Today, 222 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists solve a 50-year mystery and discover a new human blood group

#AnWj #antigen #MAL #blood group

The Human Brain Isn't Meant to Be Awake Past Midnight

#Inhibitions #24-hour #cycle #stimuli

Simple Blood Test Could Flag Your Memory Problems 6 Years Before They Start

#Alzheimer #biomarkers #p-tau181 #vulnerability

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Stranger Than We Thought

#Chicxulub #Cretaceous #CO chondrite #sulfur

A 100-Year-Old Physics Effect Doesn't Work How We Thought It Did

#currents #magnetic #fields #interact

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Saturday, September 19, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 19th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 80

Who Said this?

Innovation comes from people that don't fear the future

Today, 344 links Curated

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Scientists Say They've Detected A Quantum State Inside Living Cells

#Mitochondria #vibration #ATP #71 terahertz

Venusian Sulfur Clouds Might Not Be So Inhospitable After All

#omega loops #sulfuric acid #peptides #fold

New Findings Could Help Build Computers That Think More Like Your Brain

#skyrmions #lattice #two-dimensional #spintronics

North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes

#Punggye-ri #Mount Mantap #human-induced #rupturing

What neuroscientists thought was a biological signature for IQ might actually be socioeconomic privilege

#neighborhood #socioeconomic #patterns #regions

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Friday, September 18, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 18th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 79

Who Said this?

Information is free. Experience is expensive.

Today, 408 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Popular fermented food may help flush nanoplastics from the body

#kimchi #bacterium #lactic acid #gastrointestinal

Women diagnosed with ADHD later in life are learning to view hyperfocus as a superpower

#hormonal #reframe #internalized #self-compassion

The “Glue” Inside Protons May Hold the Secret to Matter’s Identity

#junction #gluons #quarks #valence

Antimatter Beam to Test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

#gravity #matter #antimatter #muonium

Roman Space Telescope could last more than twice as long as planned

#propellant #course correction #operations #mass

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Thursday, September 17, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 17th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 78

Who Said this?

If you don't have a sense of who you are, you will fear what you are not.

Today, 255 links Curated

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Scientists “truly astonished” by discovery that challenges Earth’s origin story

#inner #water-rich #isotope ratios #Carbonaceous

Scientists turn seawater into fresh water without harmful brine

#desalination #salt #superwicking #buildup

Silver Nanocatalysts Have a Surprising Double Life

#Solid oxide #reaction #air electrode #reversible

Earth's Shape Is Changing – Becoming Rounder And Less Round at The Same Time

#deformation #uplift #isostatic #geoid

Scientists find the whole grain “sweet spot” for better heart health

#consumption #cardiovascular risk #meta-analysis #pathways

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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 16th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 77

Who Said this?

Globally, every 1000 calories of food require about 5000 calories of fossil hydrocarbons to produce.

Today, 377 links Curated

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Scientists Find a Potential “Root” of Alzheimer’s Disease

#neurons #ERBB4 #glial #mTOR

Scientists Discover Strange 4-Stranded Genetic Structures in Human Blood

#four-stranded #folded #G-quadruplexes #plasma

Nighttime Light May Make Your Heart Thicker and Stiffer

#ventricle #atria #flex #stress

Hurricane Activity in The Atlantic Ocean Has Just Passed an Ominous Milestone

#zero hurricanes #El Niño #shear #drought

Volatile Organic Compounds Have Been Underestimated in the Carbon Cycle

#rainwater #deposition #carbon #modeling

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Tuesday, September 15, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 15th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 76

Who Said this?

Fallacies are usually more passionately believed than facts.

Today, 545 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists discover strange link between low vitamin D and pain

#mastectomy #painkiller #senses #processes

Tiny cell “antennas” may help explain why some babies are born with heart defects

#communication #congenital #cilium #signaling

First Evidence in Humans That BPA Can Alter Insulin Sensitivity

#Bisphenol A #sensitivity #reference #estrogen

Scientists stunned as volcano cloud starts destroying methane

#pollution #formaldehyde #iron salt #troposphere

Scientists Successfully Test Underwater Solar Cells 32 Feet Below The South China Sea

#submarine #perovskite #polymer #spectrum

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Monday, September 14, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 14th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 75

Who Said this?

Don't pursue happiness. Be still and let happiness catch you.

Today, 289 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Stardust Buried in Antarctic Ice Exposes an 80,000-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery

#iron-60 #movement #Supernova #Debris

Scientists Resurrect 160-Million-Year-Old Molecules With Surprising Power Against Superbugs

#peptides #drug-resistant #bacteria #lactoferrin

Global warming is breaking a 400-year climate link between two oceans

#Indian #Pacific #paleoclimate #volcanism

Thawing Permafrost Is Releasing Carbon, but Something Unexpected Happens

#sediment #seabed #carbon #cycle

A Century-Old Mystery in Venus’s Clouds Just Got Even Stranger

#ultraviolet #sulfuric acid #mystery absorber #conjugated

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Sunday, September 13, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 13th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 74

Who Said this?

Collective consciousness is struggling to be born. It is no surprise that collective ignorance feels threatened.

Today, 211 links Curated

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One Asteroid Strike May Have Reshaped an Entire Martian Moon

#Deimos #simulations #observations #regolith

Scientists discover a hidden switch that shuts down inflammation

#epoxy-oxylipins #monocytes #sEH #p38 MAPK

Researchers Discover a Green Hydrogen 'Goldmine' Beneath Australia's Red Dirt

#magnetite #fractured #porous #hematite

Scientists find water was fueling volcanoes 3 billion years ago

#magma #recycling #Dripduction #Pilbara

Evolution Might Not Be as Random as We Thought

#landscape #phenotypes #fitness #manifolds

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Saturday, September 12, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 12th

Vol VII Issue 73

Who Said this?

Between the ages of 12 and 17, emotional maturation occurs in girls. The same process occurs in men at around age 75.

Today, 334 links Curated

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Pluto’s Atmosphere May Be Collapsing

#248 years #nitrogen #winter #occultation

A Cosmic Catastrophe May Have Turned Neptune’s Ancient Moons Inside Out

#wreckage #Triton #phyllosilicates #Nereid

Scientists Found an Animal That Fixes Its Shattered DNA Across Generations

#bdelloid rotifer #radiation #Adineta vaga #chromosomes

Mulberry Shows Surprising Effects on Gut Bacteria and Metabolism

#microbiota #polyphenols #polysaccharides #prebiotic

The Atlantic Ocean Has a Hidden 'Heat Valve' That Controls Earth's Temperature

#AMOC #threshold #Dansgaard–Oeschger #regulating

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Friday, September 11, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .September 11th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 72

Who Said this?

A government that can't trust the voters with detailed knowledge of its operations isn't a democracy.

Today, 393 links Curated

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Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver”

#relativity #Stargazer #Cherenkov #memory effect

4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Reveals a Surprisingly Strong Primordial Magnetic Field