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Tuesday, June 09, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 9th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 62

Who Said this?

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

Today, 459 links Curated

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Scientists discover the brain chemical that helps you break bad habits

#neurotransmitter #acetylcholine #interneurons #lose-shift

Optimizing Pancakes From Chemical Principles

#texture #flavour #exterior #Maillard

Planet nine mystery deepens as new discovery challenges hidden planet theory

#Kuiper Belt #trans-Neptunian #sednoid #2023 KQ14

UCLA Scientists Uncover a “Hidden Weakness” in Some of the World’s Deadliest Cancers

#neuroendocrine #RB #E2F3 #synthetic lethality

Firefighters face a higher risk of skin cancer – nano fabrics with tiny, rough fibers can help keep them safer

#carcinogens #protective clothing #ultrafine #electrospinning

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Monday, June 08, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 8th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 61

Who Said this?

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

Today, 349 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Tiny Genetic Change Turns Female Mice Into Males

#DNA #base #non-coding #Enh13

Atlantic 'cold blob' caused by weakening ocean current system that's likely nearing a tipping point

#cooling #currents #AMOC #heat budget

Superheated magma may explain why similar volcanoes erupt in very different ways

#crystallization #seeds #viscosity #microtomography

Magnetic Fields May Solve a Longstanding Binary Star Mystery

#pairs #Milky Way #protostars #simulations

Bacteria can learn and form memories without a brain

#E. coli #encode #memories #microfluidic

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Sunday, June 07, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 7th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 60

Who Said this?

The internet has devolved into five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four.

Today, 211 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Hair-size microrobots combine three cancer-fighting functions in preclinical animal tests

#TriMag #magnetic fields #tumor #particle imaging

Sweet basil carbon dots show potential for sustainable agriculture

#Nanotechnology #hydrothermal #biodegradable #fluorescence

Ancient Romans Were Obsessed With This Remarkable Herb – Then It Vanished Forever

#Silphium #Libyan #laserpicium #Ferula

Scientists Are Building Electronics That Stretch Like Human Skin and Learn Like a Brain

#neuromorphic #sensing #ionogels #computing

Researchers Discover a Hidden Vitamin D Problem That Persists Year-Round

#insufficiency #ultraviolet B #calcium #deficiency

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Saturday, June 06, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 6th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 59

Who Said this?

It's easy to be right about what's wrong, while being wrong about what would be right.

Today, 400 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Giant fire tornadoes could clean up oil spills faster with less pollution

#fire whirls #rotating #vortex #Goldilocks

AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine passes first human trial

#Sarbeco #super-antigen #DNA #future-proofed

NASA just proved spacecraft can switch between multiple satellite networks

#PExT #BARD #wideband #Ka-band

Small modular nuclear reactor reaches criticality in first test

#Antares #TRISO #neutrons #Brayton

The SETI Institute Searched For Signs of Technology From 3I/ATLAS—a New Paper Reveals What They Found

#ATA #extraterrestrial #narrowband #technosignatures

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Friday, June 05, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 5th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 58

Who Said this?

My best teacher is my last mistake.

Today, 466 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists discover the master clock that controls biological growth and development

#MYRF-1 #LIN-42 #C. elegans #feedback circuit

Polyphenol structures reveal why tea, cocoa and fruit compounds taste so different

#sensory effects #pathways #structure #palatability

After 20 years, scientists finally shrink a powerful laser onto a chip

#ultrafast #photonic chip #Mamyshev #silicon nitride

Look What NASA Captured in Satellite Images as This Bizarre Phenomenon Erupted from the Heart of a Super Typhoon

#Sinlaku #VIIRS #gravity waves #airglow

Cambridge Scientists Just Reversed a Form of Nerve Damage Once Thought Permanent

#brain #spinal cord #circuits #lynestrenol

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Thursday, June 04, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 4th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 57

Who Said this?

One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Today, 441 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Brain scans reveal two distinct types of autism

#hyperconnectivity #hypoconnectivity #fMRI #genes

Scientists discovered something surprising about french fries and diabetes

#potato #whole grains #white rice #prepared

New discovery upends an 80-year-old theory of turbulence

#energy flow #pattern #tensor geometry #Navier-Stokes

Scientists discover a quantum effect that could eliminate batteries

#NLHE #voltage #Defects #Atomic Vibrations

Scientists reverse anxiety by fixing a tiny brain circuit

#amygdala #imbalance #Grik4 #basolateral

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Wednesday, June 03, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 3rd, 2026

Vol VI Issue 56

Who Said this?

Intelligence is humility. It's listening and paying attention. It's understanding there's stuff you don't know or understand.

Today, 437 links Curated

Today's Five Links

The secret underground system keeping the Grand Canyon alive

#cave networks #snowmelt #dye tracing #Roaring Springs

A hidden pollutant is changing how the world's forests breathe

#nitrogen #soils #ecosystems #Toxicity

Scientists discover gut bacteria that may help protect against autism and ADHD

#microbiome #genes #epigenetic #methylation

A Hidden Virus Found in Gut Bacteria Is Linked to Colorectal Cancer

#Bacteroides fragilis #bacteriophage #detectable #composition

Rivers in the Antarctic Sky, Captured in 3D

#atmospheric rivers #ice mass #topography #algorithm

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Tuesday, June 02, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 2nd, 2026

Vol VI Issue 55

Who Said this?

I'm not a member of an organized political party... I'm a Democrat

Today, 397 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Heading a soccer ball just once is enough to raise levels of proteins associated with brain damage

#damage #S100B #astrocytes #TBI

Stress Can Literally Make You Lose Your Direction, According to New MRI Evidence

#orient #cortisol #grid cells #entorhinal

NASA confirms meteor exploded over northeastern US with force of 230 tons of TNT

#5-foot-wide #5.6 metric tons #asteroids #fireball

Astronomers Have Uncovered a Strange Pattern in The Winds of Alien Worlds

#hottest #fastest #magnetic field #MAROON-X

Scientists Turn Mice Transparent to Uncover Obesity’s Secret Effects on Nerves

#MouseMapper #Light-Sheet #Microscopy #3D reconstruction

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Monday, June 01, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .June 1st, 2026

Vol VI Issue 54

Who Said this?

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

Today, 362 links Curated

Today's Five Links

The ocean's health may depend on a tiny microbe inside fish

#carbon cycle #calcium carbonate #teleosts #ichthyocarbonates

New solar desalination breakthrough makes fresh water without toxic brine

#salts #superwicking #Laser-Treated #Solar Panels

Chimpanzees and bonobos have human-like friend circles, study finds

#Great apes #grooming #relationships #Aging

In Senegal, a 2,000‑year‑old iron workshop sheds new light on the past

#Falémé Valley #metallurgical #slag #laterites

Scientists discover inherited traits that break Mendel’s Laws of genetics

#epigenetic #genes #Non-Mendelian #imprinting

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Sunday, May 31, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 31st, 2026

Vol VI Issue 53

Who Said this?

Americans are far more squeamish about the abundance of tits than they are about the abundance of bullet holes.

Today, 209 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Einstein-Rosen Bridges May Not Be Wormholes After All

#quantum fields #curved #spacetime #Hawking

Catalysts that prevent boil-off losses in liquid hydrogen production hold promise for a hydrogen-energy society

#composite catalysts #nanoparticles #ortho #para

Intermittent fasting triggers surprising changes in the brain

#rewiring #gut bacteria #IER #brain-gut

Omega-3 fish oil shows promise against type 2 diabetes

#insulin #resistance #glucose intolerance #inflammatory

Ozempic may be reshaping the brain

#hormonal #salience network #behavior #neural networks

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Saturday, May 30, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 30th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 52

Who Said this?

The comforter of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor

Today, 341 links Curated

Today's Five Links

New Wearable Ultrasound Device Could 'Transform' Pregnancy Care

#continuous #UPatch #red blood cells #prenatal

Plants hit the brakes on immunity to survive viral infections

#autoimmune #autophagy #enzymes #transformer

Caffeine reversed memory problems caused by sleep deprivation

#social memory #neurons #hippocampus #Adenosine

This tomato-soy juice reduced inflammation in just four weeks

#lycopene #isoflavones #proteins #estrogen

Ancient DNA reveals how women helped transform prehistoric Europe

#peopling #Europe #bronze age #Corded Ware

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Friday, May 29, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 29th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 51

Who Said this?

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

Today, 491 links Curated

Today's Five Links

The Sun Is Undergoing a Mysterious Change and Nobody Knows Why

#long-term #magnetic #proxies #p-mode

Mediacom DOCSIS upgrades pave path to 5-Gig speeds

#fiber/coax #broadband #DOCSIS 3.1 #OFDM

This bird break the rules of flight – and the secret lies is in the liver

#navigation #magnetoreception #homing pigeon #immune cells

Twisted graphene reveals a hidden superconductivity switch

#diamond #bilayer #strontium titanate #Electrons

Electronic stickers turn forests into living fire alarms

#deep-ultraviolet #solar-blind #combustion #nanocomposite

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Thursday, May 28, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 28th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 50

Who Said this?

False Necessity is the Mother of Dumb Invention.

Today, 508 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists Identify Hidden Brain Pathway Behind GLP-1 Weight-Loss Effects

#deep-brain #hedonic #dopamine #Amygdala

Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is set to lose its ice shelf this year

#Thwaites Glacier #detach #Modeling #collapse

Scientists say the hidden “third eye” inside your skull is the bizarre reason you can see

#single #central #vertebrate #photoreceptors

Newly discovered 'thunder' of Atlantic sturgeons inspires awe

#spawning #Bioacoustics #hydrophones #overfishing

Scientists Create Tiny Chip That Uses Light Instead of Electricity To Process Information

#quantum #valleytronics #nanoscale #metasurfaces

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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 27th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 49

Who Said this?

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

Today, 470 links Curated

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Scientists create global treasure map pointing to hidden rare earth deposits

#seismic #lithosphere #continents #igneous

Scientists Invent ‘Wearable Robot’ Fabric Muscle Clothing That Increases the Wearer’s Strength by 40%

#shape-memory #muscle load #yarn #coil

Heavy Rainfall Inflates Mount Fuji

#uplift #aquifers #deformation #clinker

Large Hadron Collider detects strange particle behavior that could rewrite physics

#Standard Model #penguin decays #sub-atomic #B mesons

Addition of electricity drastically lowers carbon footprint of cement production

#electrochemical #alite #belite #calcination

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Monday, May 25, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 25th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 48

Who Said this?

The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy”

Today, 272 links Curated

Today's Five Links

The impact of microplastics on ocean carbon uptake

#Phytoplankton #toxicity #sunlight #triple crisis

New Vitamin B12-Based Therapy Could Change How Brain Cancer Is Treated

#glioblastoma #blood–brain barrier #nitrosylcobalamin #apoptosis

Fatherhood Dramatically Rewires Your Brain, Scans Reveal

#restructuring #gray matter #temporal #key life stages

Does the smell of pine make you smarter?

#terpenes #cognitive #consciously #nature-related

Low-dose ketamine shows promise for easing chronic fatigue

#exhaustion #systemic #inflammation #glutamate

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Saturday, May 23, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 23rd, 2026

Vol VI Issue 47

Who Said this?

I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Today, 382 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Einstein’s “wormhole” may actually reveal a hidden mirror of time

#Einstein–Rosen bridge #paradox #fields #spacetime

Scientists Are Turning Ocean Trash Into Roads

#plastic waste #PMA #SBS #microplastic

We're 'green chemists'—why we think this emerging science can transform the way the world uses its resources

#benign #holistic #natural polymers #innovation

Hybrid California Bees Beat Deadly Mites

#Varroa mite #viruses #infestation #larval stage

Ancient DNA Shatters the Simple Story of Europe’s Origins

#genomes #Neolithic age #Anatolia #women

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Friday, May 22, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 22nd, 2026

Vol VI Issue 46

Who Said this?

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

Today, 499 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists discover a strange “inside-out” planetary system that shouldn’t exist

#rocky #gaseous #LHS 1903 #Cheops

Spinach-Based Eye Drops Could Help Treat a Common Eye Condition

#dry eye syndrome #membrane stacks #NADPH #Thylakoids

Scientists discover hidden weakness shared by hundreds of cancer mutations

#PerturbFate #control hubs #regulation #melanoma

Researchers transform paper sludge into valuable biofuels

#saccharification #fermentation #sludge #bioeconomy

Ancient chemistry trick unlocks new type of glass that traps CO2 and hydrogen

#MOF #ZIF-62 #silicate #metal-organic

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Thursday, May 21, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 21st, 2026

Vol VI Issue 45

Who Said this?

A lot of paranoia has to do with valuing internal deductions over external evidence.

Today, 429 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Swearing helps people perform better when peak performance is needed, study finds

#hold #Social pressure #disinhibited #psychological flow

Yearslong fight over users’ right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

#Vizio #SFC #Linux kernel #GPLv2

Plants can 'eat' the dust that falls onto their leaves

#deposition #foliar uptake #shrub #micronutrients

NASA’s Hubble Accidentally Witnesses a Comet Shattering in Space

#K1 #perihelion #coma #fragmenting

New eruption discovered in the Bismarck Sea

#deep-ocean floor #subduction #Titan Ridge #seismometers

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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 20th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 44

Who Said this?

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Today, 492 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Beyond Lithium: The Rise of All-Organic Batteries for a Sustainable Energy Future

#electrode #polymer #amorphous #ceramic

Scientists discover strange link between vitamin D and pain

#deficient #senses #regulates #inflammatory

Scientists Discover Hidden Sleep Switch That Boosts Brainpower, Builds Muscle, and Burns Fat

#deep sleep #growth hormone #wakefulness #GHRH

Glowing fungi expose final enzyme that could make bioluminescent tools more efficient

#oxyluciferin #CPH #caffeic #pyruvic

Naturally occurring soil fungi could boost rice yields while reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers