SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 4th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 30

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Who Said this?

True terror is knowing that the country is run by your high school class

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Today, 263 links Curated

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Today's Five Links

Physicists just found a tiny flaw in time itself

#fuzzy possibilities #collapse #gravity #uncertainty

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How a newly discovered organelle could help reduce cow methane emissions

#methanogens #hydrogen #carbon dioxide #ciliates

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Homer’s Iliad Found Embedded in a 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy

#tomb #Roman-era #papyri #Funerary

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Stretching Diamonds Unlocks Powerful New Quantum Sensing Abilities

#behavior #color centers #SiV #nanoscale sensors

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Malaria didn’t just kill early humans, it shaped who we became

#Africa #Plasmodium falciparum #transmission #Disease

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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 5th, 2025

This summer I hear the drumming

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Vol II No 29

242 links Curated

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Synthetic 'Mini Prion' Could Help Study Disease.

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-first-synthetic-mini-prion-could-help-study-diseases-like-alzheimers

#neurodegenerative #tau #misfolded #fibrils

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A “New Star” Will Soon Light Up the Night.

https://scitechdaily.com/once-in-a-lifetime-sky-show-a-new-star-will-soon-light-up-the-night/

#nova #TCrB #Red #White

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Fire-quenching robodog pads into danger zones.

https://newatlas.com/robotics/unitree-b2-fire-rescue/

#modular #Unitree #"B2 quadruped" #"extreme environment" #"water Cannon"

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Decoding the brainstem provides a new window into brain--body--mind interactions.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250502102919.htm

#imaging #D-PSCAN #NTS #VNS

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Scientists engineer precision tool for mitochondrial DNA manipulation.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250502102709.htm

#mtDNA #mutant #Disease #heteroplasmy

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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 17th, 2025

Meet the new boss... Same as the old boss.

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Vol II No 14

335 links Curated

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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Gears Up for Its Second Asteroid Flyby.

https://thedebrief.org/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-gears-up-for-its-second-asteroid-flyby/

Tags: #Donaldjohanson #SwRI #"12.5 light minutes away" #"observation sequence"

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Electricity from rainwater shows promise.

https://newatlas.com/energy/electricity-production-rainwater/

Tags: #raindrops #"plug flow" #10% #"electrically conductive polymer"

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Fungus-Based Building Material may Pave the Way to Self-Repairing Structures.

https://thedebrief.org/new-fungus-based-building-material-heals-itself-paving-the-way-toward-self-repairing-structures/

Tags: #"Neurospora crassa" #"Sporosarcina pasteurii" #mineralized #microarchitecture

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new metal stays strong, no matter the temperature,

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250416135906.htm

Tags: #Hyperadaptor #nickel-based #temperature-insensitive #"sudden or extreme temperature changes"

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Farm robot autonomously navigates, harvests among raised beds.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250416135909.htm

Tags: #"high-bed cultivation" #Lidar #disease #pruning

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