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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
- Vocal fry is more common in men, actually, find scientists
  The creaky noise known as vocal fry that people generally associate with young women – and some find irritating – is actually more common in men
- Will burying dead trees after a wildfire keep their carbon locked up?
  Partially burnt trees still standing after a wildfire are typically felled and burned, but a US start-up claims burying them instead will trap the carbon underground for centuries
- Rebooting stem cells builds aged muscles and assists injury recovery
  Muscle stem cells, which are crucial for building new muscle, don’t work as well as we get older, but giving them an artificial boost could rejuvenate them
- Melting of Greenland ice sheet could release methane 'fire ice'
  Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were created when Arctic methane stores were disrupted by climate change after the last glacial maximum – and scientists warn it could happen again
- Neanderthals treated a dental cavity by drilling into the tooth
  A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry began at least 59,000 years ago
Scientific American
- U.S. Supreme Court allows mifepristone by mail—for now
  
  The nation's top court extended a stay on a lower court order banning telemedicine access to mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortions—but the order sets up a longer legal fight
- There’s an 82 percent chance El Niño will ‘emerge soon,’ NWS says
  
  The El Niño climate event is due to return this year, with U.S. forecasters predicting an 82 percent chance of it coming in May through July and a 96 percent chance for it doing so in December through February 2027
- ‘Golden rule’ in abstract art just discovered by mathematicians
  
  A mathematical ratio could explain why AI-generated art doesn’t evoke awe from viewers
- Implantable ‘living materials’ that deliver drugs on demand could help fight infections
  
  In a “breakthrough,” researchers demonstrate how engineered bacteria held in a jellylike container could help fight infection in mice
- Doubts grow over theory that bird-watchers’ trip to Argentine landfill sparked hantavirus outbreak
  
  The hantavirus cruise outbreak may not have started in a garbage dump in Ushuaia, Argentina, after all
Science News
Water drops on soap bubble films act like merging galaxies
Water droplets on soap films orbited and merged like colliding galaxies, a technique that could help scientists study the cosmos.

AI can take the friction out of life, but some effort can be good
Technologies, including chatbots, promise to make life easier. But removing the friction, or effort involved in thinking, has costs.

Female rats like a different kind of tickling than males
Female rats prefer gentler tickling, a finding that could reshape animal happiness research.

First evidence of Neandertal dentistry found in ancient molar
A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive dentistry.

Hantavirus questions grow in the wake of a cruise ship outbreak
Scientists still don’t know why Andes hantavirus is the only one shown to spread from person to person.

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