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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
- Ditch the niceties in AI prompts to save energy use, say researchers
  A UN report warns of the rapid growth in AI energy consumption, but suggests users can improve efficiency by making prompts more concise
- Atom-based quantum computers are catching up in the race to usefulness
  A quantum computer made from extremely cold atoms can correct its own errors during long computations, an important prerequisite for becoming truly useful
- Keto diet shows real promise for anorexia recovery
  Restricting carbohydrates may sound like an unlikely approach to treating anorexia, but following a ketogenic diet was linked to recovery in 3 in 4 people with the eating disorder in a small trial
- Ötzi's frozen remains may harbour metabolically active microbes
  Researchers studying a 5300-year-old mummified man have identified bacteria that lived in his gut when he was alive, as well as cold-tolerant fungi that colonised his body after death
- Hidden store of manganese may have helped Earth get its oxygen
  Computer simulations have uncovered a new manganese compound that could exist deep in Earth’s mantle and may be connected to the process that gave our atmosphere oxygen
Scientific American
- The reason why elevators feel slow—and the surprising math behind everyday life
  
  From slow elevators to perfectly split pizza, math quietly explains the quirks of everyday life
- Edison may not have been the first to record the human voice, new evidence suggests
  
  Could a predecessor to the phonograph have appeared a century earlier?
- Ötzi the murdered Iceman’s microbiome is still active
  
  More than 5,300 years after Ötzi’s death, researchers found genetic material from his gut microbiome and identified yeasts that continue to exist despite the mummy being kept below freezing
- U.S. science must innovate or die, National Academy of Sciences president says
  
  The past year has been “filled with turmoil” for science, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt said during her State of the Science address
- In a first, scientists transplanted both a pig liver and kidneys into a person who was brain-dead
  
  The transplanted pig organs functioned for 36 hours before showing signs of rejection
Science News
A secret to making a queen bee may lie in the wax around it
Queen-cell wax helps shape honeybee queen development, challenging the idea that royal jelly alone makes a queen, a new study suggests.

Curbing Congo’s Ebola outbreak is hampered by unknowns about the virus
Answers to key questions could help public health officials develop Ebola treatments, predict the outbreak’s trajectory and prevent a future one.

Ötzi the Iceman’s remains yielded ‘viable’ yeasts in the lab
The cold-loving yeasts from Ötzi’s remains suggest the Iceman’s microbiome may not be completely frozen in time.

Microsoft’s quantum chip got an upgrade. Critics are still skeptical
Swapping materials in its Majorana 2 chip boosted the effectiveness of quantum bits that rely on the math of topology to reduce errors, Microsoft says.

The math of choosing a restaurant meal is revealed in Richard Feynman’s notes
Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people approximate his solution on their own.

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