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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
- Unprecedented insight into memory champion's brain reveals his tricks
  Nelson Dellis credits techniques like the method of loci for his extraordinary memory. Now, brain scans have revealed the parts of his brain that this approach taps into, and how we can use it to improve our own recall
- We may have just glimpsed the universe's first stars
  A galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, known as Hebe, that existed just 400 million years after the big bang appears to contain extremely pure and young stars
- Historic Artemis II launch sends astronauts bound for the moon
  Four astronauts have begun a 10-day journey around the moon and back again, the first crewed flight to the moon since 1972
- Astronauts are ready to return to the moon on Artemis II mission
  NASA’s Artemis II mission will be the first time humans have been around the moon in half a century, and its next launch window opens on 1 April
- Tobacco plant altered to produce five psychedelic drugs
  Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are increasingly in demand for research and medical uses
Scientific American
- Anthropic leak reveals Claude Code tracking user frustration and raises new questions about AI privacy
  
  Code that reads your frustration is the least interesting part of the story of this accidental leak from Anthropic. The leak reveals how AI tools are also concealing their own role in the work they help produce
- See these ziti-sized fish scale a 50-foot waterfall
  
  These tiny fish use friction to put human rock climbers to shame
- NASA’s moon mission day one—a toilet mishap and spacecraft maneuvers
  
  The first day of the Artemis IImission saw the crew enter Earth orbit and prepare for their journey around the moon
- Why do Black women have worse IVF outcomes?
  
  A new study helps narrow down the reasons why Black people undergoing infertility treatment have fewer live births
- Humans have been gambling since the Ice Age
  
  A new archeological finding shows that Native Americans were exploring probability through games of chance far earlier than their Old World counterparts
Science News
Fossils reveal many complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion
Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of prehistory.

To climb trees, cicadas look to the shadows
Tree-climbing cicadas find their perches by looking for patches of darkness, a strategy known as skototaxis.

The oldest known dice date back about 12,000 years in North America
A study of ancient artifacts suggests Native American dice games began thousands of years earlier than previously documented.

Artemis II sends humans around the moon for first time since Apollo
Artemis II is underway, carrying four astronauts around the moon on a 10-day mission to test systems for later lunar flights and an eventual moon base.

Digital heart twins can guide a lifesaving procedure
Heart replicas helped doctors spot good targets for ablation in 10 patients. Months later, all of them are free of sustained faulty rhythms.

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