SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 6th, 2025

Vol II No 5

178 links Curated

All natural, in the sense of not having been made in a particle accelerator.

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Hydrogenation may soon be initiated more effectively and less expensively.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250404145810.htm

Tags: #Catalyst #palladium #platinum #SAC

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* NASA’s Voyager Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as Mission Nears Its End*

https://gizmodo.com/keeping-voyager-alive-nasas-project-scientist-faces-painful-choices-as-the-iconic-mission-nears-its-end-2000580634

Tags: #plutonium #instruments #power-savings #interstellar

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Neuroscientists Unveil Open-Source Software to Map the Brain Like Never Before.

https://thedebrief.org/neuroscientists-unveil-digital-translator-to-map-the-mind-like-never-before/

Tags: #HCP #Network #Correspondence #commonalities

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North America is Dripping from Below.

https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04/north-america-is-dripping-from-below-geoscientists-discover/

Tags: #cratonic #thinning #Midwest #tomographic

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Ukraine’s Drones are Beating Russian Jamming.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/killer-drones

Tags: #neural-network-driven #machine-vision #terminal #guidance

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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 18th, 2025

 

Science is an attempt to remove our emotions and ego from reality.

Vol II No 44

330 links Curated

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Deposits found on an asteroid point to salty water in the outer Solar System.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250214123929.htm

Tags: #Ryugu #salt #precipated #sodium

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Did Our Solar System Pass Through a Giant Molecular Cloud Ten Million Years Ago?

https://thedebrief.org/did-our-solar-system-pass-through-a-giant-molecular-cloud-ten-million-years-ago/

Tags: #solar-wind #beryllium-10 #interstellar #heliosphere

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Lidar has fully revealed a 600-year-old Zapotec city in southern Mexico.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/lasers-reveal-15th-century-fortified-zapotec-city-in-mexico

Tags: #LIDAR #Zapotec #Guiengola #Tehuantepec

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AI-based brain decoder can translate a person's thoughts into text without training.

https://www.livescience.com/health/mind/ai-brain-decoder-can-read-a-persons-thoughts-with-just-a-quick-brain-scan-and-almost-no-training

Tags: #AI #decode #aphasia #converter

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A groundbreaking study explores a sustainable catalyst for ammonia synthesis.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250217133451.htm

Tags: #Ba3SiO5 #ruthenium #ammonia #mixed-anion

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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 17th, 2025

I can feel a good one coming on!

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Vol II No 43

162 links Curated

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Researchers have developed a reactor that converts carbon dioxide it into fuel, using only sunlight.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250213144317.htm

Tags: #CO2 #solar-powered #photosynthesis #syngas

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Meta Accused Of Training AI On Torrented 82TB Pirated Dataset

https://hothardware.com/news/lawsuit-meta-training-ai-millions-of-pirated-books

Tags: #Meta #LibGen #copyright #AI

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Simulations reveal that a million objects from Alpha Centauri, may be in the Oort Cloud.

https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/1-million-interstellar-objects-each-larger-than-the-statue-of-liberty-may-lurk-in-the-outer-solar-system

Tags: #interstellar #Oort #transfer #simulation

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Flexible stick-on patches could monitor blood pressure, stress, and more.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/graphene-biosensor

Tags: #tattoos #graphene #biosensing #GETs

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NASA's Curiosity discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock.

https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/nasa-rover-discovers-liquid-water-ripples-carved-into-mars-rock-and-it-could-rewrite-the-red-planets-history

Tags: #water #lakebed #Gale #sediment

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