Science and Technology Chronicles

Friday, July 31, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 31st, 2026

Vol VII Issue 31

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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Today, 387 links Curated

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American Heart Association Reveals How Much Coffee Is Safe for Your Heart

#400 mg #cardiovascular #antioxidant #anti-inflammatory

A unique antibody system may help explain bats' unusual tolerance of viruses

#vesper #immunity #proteins #chains

Scientists Pinpoint Where DNA First Opens

#helicase #MCM2-7 #Replication #genome

This game studio wants kids to help NASA build the first lunar colony

#Moonbase Y #August Interactive #educational #collaborative

A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return

#sediments #subsidence #inelastic #groundwater

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Thursday, July 30, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 30th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 30

Who Said this?

You know in high school if you didn’t believe in science or history, it was called failing.

Today, 489 links Curated

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Earth’s hidden “gold kitchen” lies beneath the seafloor

#submarine #volcanoes #Kermadec #subduction

Researchers May Have Solved a Two-Thousand-Year-Old Stellar Mystery Recorded by Ancient Astronomers

#Theta Eridani #transients #Roche lobes #photometric

Color Blind? Just 3 Amino Acids Separate Red From Green Vision

#cones #retina #three-dimensional #11-cis-retinal

Rare Bourbon Virus Confirmed in New York for the First Time

#ticks #epidemiology #vector #antibodies

Earth's Biggest Mass Extinction Reveals Chilling Parallels to Today's World

#Great Dying #heat #low-oxygen #metabolism

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 29th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 29

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, 432 links Curated

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Scientists Discover the Brain Is Not Always Ready To Make Memories

#alertness #hippocampus #episodic #theta

Why Scientists Redesigned the Botox Enzyme With AI

#evolution #neurodegeneration #PACE #substrates

Major Quantum Entanglement Theory Has Been Experimentally Confirmed

#synchronization #quantum bath #qubits #superposition

Rising CO2 Alters Upper Atmosphere Response to Stratosphere Sudden Warming

#whole-atmosphere #cooling #upper atmosphere #winds

'Demon cavefish' discovered under WWII chemical weapons facility in Alabama

#Demogorgons #Redstone Arsenal #Bobcat Cave #rhodopsin

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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 28th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 28

Who Said this?

Honesty is the best policy... if you can fake that you’ve got it made.

Today, 383 links Curated

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A slowing Atlantic current could unleash stronger California storms

#atmospheric rivers #AMOC #temperatures #winds

Misfolded insulin may be quietly driving diabetes

#Beta Cells #proinsulin #immunoglobulin #cochaperone

Invisible Black Holes Could Be Triggering Supernovae

#PBH #white dwarf #tidal forces #Observations

Brain structure differences in autism map onto serotonin receptor locations

#neuroimaging #cortical #neurotransmitters #vertices

Scientists Find Neurons in The Gut That Could Be Driving Constipation And Pain

#gut neurons #digestive tract #enteric #prodynorphin

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Monday, July 27, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 27th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 27

Who Said this?

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Today, 317 links Curated

Today's Five Links

The best way to save giant sequoias may be more fire

#Prescribed burns #periodic #low-intensity #survival

Scientists Say Love Follows Mathematical Patterns

#patterns #couple #Malthus #threshold

Teaching Kids Forth

#stack-oriented #concatenative #interpreters #Easy Forth

Scientists Find a Genius (And Cheaper) Way to Remove PFAS From Soil

#biosolids #pyrolysis #alkaline rock #pH

Giant Concentric Rings Discovered in The Atmosphere of Venus

#polarized light #ExPo #Akatsuki #planetary-scale

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Sunday, July 26, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 26th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 26

Who Said this?

Criticism Is the Only Known Antidote to Error

Today, 251 links Curated

Today's Five Links

4 myths cause us to abandon science. Here’s the path back.

#mistrustful #doubt #misconception #funds

Venus may be tearing itself apart from within

#simulations #interior #tectonic #Rifts

Tiny Gecko Could Reveal How Cancer Spreads

#tumors #genomic #model #species

Are redheads going extinct?

#melanoma #genetics #reproduction #recessive

Drug-Resistant Superbugs May Be Jumping Between Pets And Humans

#Acinetobacter baumannii #zoonotic #AMR #indistinguishable

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Saturday, July 25, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 25th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 25

Who Said this?

It's frankly terrifying that people with so much money are obviously so utterly nuts.

Today, 373 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Natural compound may fight rheumatoid arthritis at its source

#obakulactone #tetracyclic #triterpenoid #fatty acids

Scientists discover a compound that could supercharge aging muscle repair

#hepatocyte #nitration #trisulfides #LASSS

If You Remove a Mirror While a Photon Is Reflecting, It Somehow Makes Infinite Photons

#electromagnetic #wave-particle #duality #superposition

Scientists Reveal How Exercise May Protect the Aging Brain

#glymphatic #waste clearance #inflammation #norepinephrine

Poetry for Engineers: A Martian Rover Sends a Postcard Home

#verse becomes electric #aerospace #poetry #mars rovers

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Friday, July 24, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 24th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 24

Who Said this?

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Today, 353 links Curated#vellus #temperature #trichoknesis #fast-conducting

Today's Five Links

A Wild Parasite Makes Ants Live 10x Longer And Tricks Others Into Worshiping Them

#Temnothorax nylanderi #woodpecker #tapeworm #physiology

Scientists Build the First 3D Cloak That Makes Objects Invisible To Heat

#guide #heat #redirect #Omnidirectional

Itching May Have Its Own Sensory Organ

#vellus #temperature #trichoknesis #fast-conducting

Honey is so hostile to bacteria that hospitals keep a sterilized, medical-grade version on hand

#osmotic #acidic #glucose oxidase #methylglyoxal

The Structure of The Milky Way May Have Shaped Earth's Continents

#zircon #Oort Cloud #hafnium #cratons

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Thursday, July 23, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 23rd, 2026

Vol VII Issue 23

Who Said this?

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or is God merely a mistake of man?

Today, 514 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists Inch Closer to Creating Human Sperm in the Lab

#kidney #blood cells #development #iPSCs

New Catalyst Turns Stubborn Plant Waste Into Valuable Chemicals

#lignin #aromatic #ruthenium #phenol

We May Finally Have a Vaccine Against The Plague

#Yersinia pestis #rat fleas #live-attenuated #prime-pull

3.1-Billion-Year-Old Rocks Rewrite the History of Earth’s Early Tectonics

#recycling #surface water #Pilbara Craton #subduction

Tiny vesicles in breast milk carry stress signals to the infant brain

#extracellular vesicles #membrane-bound #microRNA #post-transcriptional

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Wednesday, July 22, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 22nd, 2026

Vol VII Issue 22

Who Said this?

In the end, we’re all just walking each other home.

Today, 460 links Curated

Today's Five Links

New molecular map reveals how the flu virus hijacks human cells

#influenza A #nucleus #interactions #RNA

Our Entire Galaxy May Have Once Flipped on Its Side

#Milky Way #stellar halo #spherical #dark matter

One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon

#debris #resonance #Eulalia #impact glass

Moss Is Generating Electrical Waves That Look Startlingly Like a Neural Network

#drift-related #electrical #Brachythecium rutabulum #physiological

Ultimate Limit of The Human Lifespan May Be Identified, Study Suggests

#immortal #mutations #framework #somatic

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Tuesday, July 21, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 21st, 2026

Vol VII Issue 21

Who Said this?

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

Today, 378 links Curated

Today's Five Links

The Universe Can Expand Faster Than Light Without Breaking Physics

#expansion #LCDM #horizon #redshift

Monkeys Have Geometric Skills On Par With Human Preschoolers, Study Suggests

#shapes #reasoning #education #abstract

A Century-Old Belief About Diamond Has Just Been Overturned

#membranes #piezoelectric #MEMS #edge-exfoliation

Scientists Find a Way Around a 160-Year-Old Law of Physics to Create Programmable Heat

#absorption #emission #magnetic field #metagrating

New Metal Alloy Is up to 10 Times Stronger Than Structural Steel

#cobalt #aluminum #nanolaminate #Intermetallics

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Monday, July 20, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 20th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 20

Who Said this?

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

Today, 314 links Curated

Today's Five Links

The mysterious hum heard around the world may finally have an explanation

#low-frequency #tinnitus #oto-acoustic #microstructures

A Sea Worm’s Incredible “Bio-Metal” Jaws May Belong to an Entirely New Class of Material

#Perinereis cultrifera #proteins #ions #Nix-Gao

Scientists Finally Worked Out Why Some Hair Is Curly – And It Starts Beneath The Skin

#follicles #bulb #mold #keratin

A Hidden Protein-Folding Failure May Help Drive Diabetes

#proinsulin #three-dimensional #beta cells #chaperone

Microsoft's own mistakes are pushing users toward Linux faster than anyone expected

#Desktop #gaming #Copilot #Recall

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Sunday, July 19, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 19th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 19

Who Said this?

If you're in trouble or hurt or need, go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help, the only ones.

Today, 218 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Your fingers may hold a secret of human brain evolution

#prenatal #estrogen #circumferences #Boys

Why Ancient Mesopotamians Took Their Signatures So Seriously

#Cylinder seals #Mesopotamians #intaglio #Identity

Terraforming Mars may be more realistic than scientists once thought

#Earth-like #launch costs #synthetic biology #photosynthesis

Scientists identify the rare meteorite that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago

#Ornans #chemistry #extinction #isotopes

Cybersecurity risks posed by over-the-air tech in autos has analysts concerned

#infrastructure #vehicle systems #cyberattacks #espionage

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Saturday, July 18, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 18th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 18

Who Said this?

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

Today, 337 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Brain Breakthrough Could Help Older Adults Live Longer and Stay Steady

#neurons #movement #coordination #Purkinje

Blue Light Breakthrough Could Speed Up Drug Discovery

#three-dimensional #catalyst #carbon-halogen #adjacent

A Giant Structure Is Towering Over The Milky Way. After 40 Years, Scientists Have Worked Out What It Is

#GCL #nuclear #SDSS-V #sulfur

Researchers extracted water directly from lunar soil in July 2025 and used sunlight to convert it into breathable oxygen and rocket fuel

#Chang'e-5 #extraction #conversion #photothermal

How Octopuses Hacked Their Ribosome To Become Smart

#convergent #evolution #H88 #environmental

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Friday, July 17, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 17th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 17

Who Said this?

We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down.

Today, 409 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Earth has a natural thermostat and scientists finally know how it works

#feedback #phosphate #carbon #carbon dioxide

A 24-Hour Fast Activates a Microbial Pathway That Helps Heal the Gut

#repair #AKK #regeneration #recovery

An Atmosphere Has Been Detected Around A Rocky 'Habitable Zone' Planet

#exoplanetary #atmospheres #LHS1140b #helium

Could Dark Matter Be Hiding in a Hidden Fifth Dimension?

#resonance #gravitational #dark photon #interactions

Ancient DNA Finally Solves a 16th-Century Murder Mystery

#Francesco de Medici #Plasmodium #Malaria #Plasmodium falciparum

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Thursday, July 16, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 16th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 16

Who Said this?

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

Today, 415 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Archaeologists found Homer's Iliad inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy

#papyrus #fragment #Greek #mummification

Study Reveals a Surprising Link Between Birth Control Pills and Binge Eating

#hormone #emotional eating #binge-related #synthetic

Nanoparticles Cross Blood-Brain Barrier in Mice to Shrink Deadly Glioblastoma

#brain cancer #sugar-coated #mannose #GLUT1

Scientists Have Identified a Key Driver of Age-Related Cognitive Decline

#protein #pathway #BBB #KLF4

Atlantic Ocean Slowdown Could Supercharge California Storms

#circulation #rainfall #AMOC #moisture

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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 15th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 15

Who Said this?

It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.

Today, 450 links Curated

Today's Five Links

New Strategy Could Break Pancreatic Cancer’s Protective Shield

#signaling #IL1RAP #fibrous #drug penetration

Scientists finally solved why some frogs survive a deadly fungus

#immune #tadpoles #metamorphosis #peptides

New Wearable Patch Boosts REM Sleep Without Drugs or Surgery

#bioelectronic #NEUSLeeP #noninvasively #heart rate variability

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

#Apple #SGI #Thinking Machines #IRIS

Scientists Finally Solve a 50-Year Mystery Hidden in Solid Nitrogen

#structure #γ-N2 #P21/c #nitrogen-15

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 14th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 14

Who Said this?

There is no glory in using artificial intelligence for military war. The glory of AI lies in using it to remove the sufferings of humanity.

Today, 477 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists discovered the brain doesn't make decisions the way we thought

#feedback #interconnected #natural intelligence #somatosensory

Intermittent Fasting Benefits May Last Long After the Diet Ends

#eight-hour #eating #window #time-restricted

How LSD reshapes brain circuitry to blur the lines between perception and thought

#synchronization #excitement #inhibition #synchrony

Yale scientists found a hidden network inside the eye

#cooperate #commander #bipolar #electrical synapses

Scientists May Have Finally Solved a Decades-Old Mystery Beneath the Pacific Ocean

#thermochemical #plume #Ontong Java #Simulation

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Monday, July 13, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 13th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 13

Who Said this?

Saying you don't care about privacy because you've got nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Today, 274 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Chimpanzees Keep Throwing Stones at the Same Trees

#accumulative #repeat #pant-hoot #culture

Strange “Chimeric” RNA Linked to Women’s Health and Wellness

#UBA1-CDK16 #immune #X chromosome #functional genome

Bacteria Turn Toxic Uranium Into a Surprisingly Stable Compound

#contamination #dissolved #pentavalent #remediation

Spider-like creatures help uncover the surprising origins of fatherhood

#citizen science #Gonyleptoidea #guarding #harvestman

Light Usually Speeds Things Up. Scientists Just Caught It Doing The Opposite

#diffusion #quantum friction #light-induced #nanotubes

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Sunday, July 12, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .July 12th, 2026

Vol VII Issue 12

Who Said this?

In 100 years of teaching we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching Remedial English in College

Today, 212 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists Catch a “Jumping Gene” Moving Between Species

#circular #RNA #self-splicing #intron

Columbia scientists discover surprising link between serotonin and heart valve disease