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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
- An unexpected feedback loop may be driving mega heatwaves
  Dry soil and high pressure can amplify extreme heat, helping to explain why regions like Europe are suffering record-shattering heatwaves much earlier than climate models predicted
- Record-breaking, fast-spinning magnet could help uncover new physics
  A magnet barely wider than a human hair is one of the fastest spinning objects ever and could be useful for both fundamental physics experiments and in quantum technology
- Less than 4 minutes of vigorous exercise a day could halve your dementia risk
  Bursts of vigorous physical activity, such as carrying heavy shopping or rushing for the bus, seem to have a significant effect on our brain health and dementia risk
- Parkinson’s may be driven by ‘vicious cycle’ that disrupts brain waste drainage
  Parkinson's disease is linked to toxic protein clumps and disrupted brain waste removal, which may feed off each other, causing the condition to progress
- Hubble Space Telescope is falling to Earth – should NASA save it?
  The Hubble Space Telescope faces a fiery and fatal re-entry to Earth's atmosphere sometime around 2032, but NASA is asking the private sector for ideas to keep it working
Scientific American
- Earth's rocks have a missing layer spanning up to a billion years. Scientists finally know what happened to it
  
  The 'Great Unconformity' has puzzled scientists since its discovery in the 1870s
- The mathematical trick that explains how to find a needle in a haystack
  
  We asked a statistics expert how difficult it would be to find a needle in a haystack—the answer is: just as hard as you think
- Nothing can be fully transparent, physicists discover
  
  Quantum researchers show how materials inevitably absorb light
- Math Puzzle: Secret formula
  
  Can you guess the puzzle writer’s secret formula?
- This brain change can make foxes act like pet dogs
  
  Using data from a 1950s Russian experiment, researchers are getting “to the heart of brain programming” in foxes
Science News
This may be the best evidence yet that dinosaur blood can fossilize
Imaging and chemical analysis of a 115-million-year-old dinosaur fossil points to blood cells. But some aren't convinced.

This armored amphibian once lived and hunted on the seafloor
Gerrothorax maritimus, which existed about 237 million years ago, is the first ever amphibian known to have lived without access to land or freshwater.

How octopuses squeeze through tiny openings, step by step
In the lab, octopuses used specific moves to slip arms and a bulbous body through tiny holes. The finding could inspire new body plans for soft robots.

Record-low temperature created on China’s space station
With gravity's effects mitigated, atoms orbiting Earth on China’s space station reached about 10 trillionths of a kelvin.

Little Ice Age cooling in Europe may have raised the risk of rickets
The Industrial Revolution and climate change may have both contributed to vitamin D deficiencies in 18th and 19th century Europe.

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