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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
- A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa
  Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the Earth’s mantle, a sign of a rupture in the tectonic plates and the possible beginning of a new continental boundary
- Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy demand?
  A US start-up is putting autonomous data centres in the ocean, powered by wave energy, but experts warn that the harsh environment could make maintenance challenging
- Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence
  Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island’s ancestry
- Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for interstellar travel
  Minuscule silicon wafers propelled by lasers could be used to steer light sails, helping them travel beyond the solar system
- There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise
  Satellite measurements show that in the early 2010s sea level rise suddenly accelerated to a rate of 4.1 millimetres per year, possibly in response to an increase in the rate of global warming
Scientific American
- Sucker fish are hiding in manta rays’ ‘butthole,’ new study reveals
  
  The practice of “cloacal diving” could help remoras hide from predators—it could also be a feeding strategy or help the fish hitchhike
- Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test
  
  The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure inside it
- See the National Park Service’s newest canine rangers
  
  Sled dogs have worked alongside humans for thousands of years. In the harsh Alaskan winter they remain the best option for traversing the snowy landscape
- Tanking is ruining NBA basketball. Can math save it?
  
  Several teams appeared to spend the second half of the U.S. professional basketball season losing games on purpose for a better chance at a high draft pick. New ideas propose to fix this incentive problem
- Inside NASA’s ‘very ambitious’ moon base plan
  
  NASA’s moon exploration plans call for nearly 80 launches, nearly 75 landers, 10 moon buggies and one nuclear reactor
Science News
Astronomers may have found a record-breaking pair of black holes
At some 60 billion times the mass of the sun, this dark void could be home to a pair of black holes that are due for a cosmic collision.

Some South American rodent-borne viruses may spread as climate warms
Some rodents in South America carry arenaviruses and hantaviruses. Climate change may bring both to regions where neither is currently a threat.

Yawning is contagious — even in the womb
Rather than catching a yawn on sight, muscles squeezing the uterus could be the trigger for a fetus to catch a yawn from its mother.

If wings came before flight, what were they for?
Scientists use simulated dinosaurs to trigger real insect brains and test how wings originally evolved.

To understand black holes, physicists turn to a mathematical ‘Rosetta stone’
A link between particle physics and gravity equations, called the double copy, applies to Hawking radiation, creating a new way into black hole puzzles.

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