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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
- Swimmer made of quantum light breaks Newton’s third law
  According to Newton’s third law, all actions are paired with reciprocal reactions. But breaking this principle allowed an artificial swimmer to move upstream in a quantum stream of light
- SpaceX’s Starship will orbit Earth for first time during next flight
  Starship's next test flight will be its first orbital mission. The craft will also release working Starlink V3 satellites for the first time, making the flight the first commercially useful Starship mission
- Physicists are scrambling to make sense of possible dark matter signal
  Following the possible recent detection of a dark matter particle, researchers have already come up with a veritable cornucopia of possible models for what sort of particle it might have been
- Fishapod fossil shows early elbows came in a variety of forms
  The fish that preceded the first four-legged land animals came in a wider variety of forms than we had thought, and fossils show that one had an elbow joint that moved in an oddly restrictive way
- Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged
  The front and back parts of our brain come from different progenitor cells in embryos, which suggests they evolved as separate entities
Scientific American
- What a Trump order to put political appointees in charge of NIH funding would mean for science
  
  Advocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over research grants would “upend” U.S. science
- Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?
  
  OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole
- 9 ‘boundaries’ keep Earth livable. We’ve breached 7 of them
  
  Earth’s annual checkup shows that we’re at increasing risk of moving away from the environment we’re adapted to
- COVID cases are on the rise—here’s how to stay healthy this winter
  
  The virus is currently most prevalent in California and the southern U.S., but experts expect it to go national in the coming weeks
- Space weapons, AI safety concerns and the EPA’s rollback of power plant emission rules
  
  From orbital weapons to AI risks and weaker emissions rules
Science News
First radio waves seen from an exoplanet hint at otherworldly auroras
The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth’s.

MRIs show brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s years in advance
A thickening cortex, as shown in MRIs, preceded amyloid-beta accumulation, a known hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, by up to seven years.

Surviving the summer
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses existential threats to humankind: extreme heat, never-ending drought and a plan to provide Earth with sunlight on demand.

Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?
For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.

This ‘anti-vampiric’ grave used two strategies to stop the undead
A sickle across the throat and a padlock on the toe were likely meant to keep this 17th-century Polish teen from resurrecting.

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