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Mitotype PCR genetic test results of bee specimens (feral and managed hives) are updated weekly.

Target goal of 1,000 hives to be tested in 2024.

New Scientist
- The most detailed survey of the universe ever conducted starts now
  The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest camera ever built to map the solar system, the galaxy and beyond
- Babies are born with the neural foundations for maths
  Brain recordings from newborns reveal the first neural evidence that humans are born with an innate sense of numbers
- I’m the first person whose life was saved by CRISPR base editing
  When standard leukaemia treatments failed, 13-year-old Alyssa Tapley was told she had only weeks left – but then she was offered an experimental procedure
- US government wants to have a useful quantum computer by 2028
  The US government is trying to speed up the development of quantum computers so it can have one sooner
- Childbirth for many primate species is even harder than for humans
  For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find the birth process just as difficult
Scientific American
- London botanic gardens digitizes 7 million specimens
  
  As Kew Botanic Gardens completes a scan of its collections, AI tools could help in the fight against biodiversity loss
- Stunning new image of the Milky Way reveals its glittering heart
  
  This brilliant new image, taken by Europe’s Euclid space telescope, offers a preview of the kind of imaging that will be possible with NASA’s upcoming Roman telescope
- Chaotic pigeons are helping redefine what we know about learning
  
  Pigeons seem to defy a century-old psychology law about how rewards and consequences help us learn
- Why botulism keeps cropping up in infant formula
  
  The toxin behind two outbreaks in seven months is hard to find—and just a handful of labs are equipped to look for it at all
- Extreme heat is setting in for July 4. Here’s what to know
  
  A prolonged, intense heat wave will make temperatures feel as hot as 115 degrees Fahrenheit in the eastern U.S. this week
Science News
This microbe turns into a cannibalistic ‘Hulk’
Euplotes gigatrox’s shape-shifting may reveal how early life learned to act in surprisingly complex ways.

Crabs can’t hide from an octopus with a mirror
New experiments show that octopuses can understand where an item is based solely on its reflection.

CERN shutters the Large Hadron Collider for a major transformation
The High-Luminosity LHC, planned to switch on in 2030, could help physicists unravel mysteries about the Higgs boson, dark matter and more.

A discovery about this bat’s diet was hiding in a Renaissance painting
Renaissance painter Jan Brueghel the Elder painted a bat eating a bird — 400 years before scientists would document the behavior.

A whopping 14 million species of insects — or more — may roam Earth
New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.

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