SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 12th, 2025

There will always be survivors.

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Vol II No 11

294 links Curated

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Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250409154846.htm

Tags: #"Peruvian Amazon" #neurotoxin #"Ficus insipida" #"coal combustion"

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Lunar water ice could be found at higher latitudes, easier to extract.

https://eos.org/articles/lunar-ice-might-be-easier-to-reach-than-we-thought

Tags: #"Vikram lander" #"pole-facing slopes" #modeling #ChaSTE

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Fossil reefs preserve reliable records of past variations.

https://eos.org/science-updates/unlocking-climate-secrets-of-hawaiis-drowned-reefs

Tags: #X389 #branching #columnar #microbialite

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Potable water is a byproduct of low-cost green hydrogen technology.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250409154848.htm

Tags: #solar-powered #electrolysis #seawater #photovoltaics

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The oldest-known wooly mammoth fossil in North America gives up its genetic secrets.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/mammoths/oldest-known-north-american-woolly-mammoth-revealed-in-long-lost-ancient-dna

Tags: #"Old Crow River" #"Mammuthus primigenius" #""deep-time DNA" #mitogenomes

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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan 13, 2025

 
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vol II No 8

207 links Curated

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Snowball Earth, may have created the conditions for complex multi-cellular life
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physics-of-cold-water-may-have-jump-started-complex-life-20240724/

Tags: #snowball #seawater #viscous #algae #diffusion #Chlamydomonas

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Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/anexia_vmware_to_kvm_migration/

Tags: #VMWare #KVM #license #open-source #Broadcom #VMDK

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research increasingly suggests that the music we love can have a huge boost to our health
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/hope-sings-eternal-can-listening-to-music-help-you-cheat-death/

Tags: #music #Tregoning #isolation #co-operation #Cortisol

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Science fiction as part of an important feedback loop with real scientific and technological innovation.
https://issues.org/science-fiction-policy-tool-finn/

Tags: #adjacent #imagination #ruleset #Protopia #Specialization #siloed

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An enormous, extremely well preserved dinosaur skull unearthed in China belongs to a never-before-seen species
https://www.livescience.com/animals/dinosaurs/enormous-skull-of-200-million-year-old-giant-dinosaur-discovered-in-china

Tags: #Yunnan #sauropodomorph #Hettangian #Jurassic #herbivore

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