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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
- Blood test could gauge if a baby has a dangerous infection in 15 minutes
  Feverish babies in hospital are often assumed to have a serious bacterial infection and are treated with antibiotics. But a test that gauges whether the infection is bacterial or viral, which tend to be milder, could prevent unnecessary drug use
- Virtual green spaces and classical music reduce blood pressure in hospital
  Watching a river flow via a virtual-reality headset while listening to classical music seems to quickly bring people's blood pressure down from a dangerously high level in hospital
- Is China catching up to the US and SpaceX on reusable rockets?
  The next space race is not about making rockets faster, bigger or more capacious, but about reusing them reliably and cheaply. The US is well ahead, but can China catch up?
- Mathematician discovers rare eight-faced shape
  It isn't easy to demonstrate that a new geometric shape can actually exist in the real world, but one researcher argues that the genus-3 polyhedron can
- Dogs pay more attention to consonants than vowels when we speak
  Hooking up dogs to non-invasive EEG monitors has helped identify exactly which component of human speech the animals are most attuned to
Scientific American
- The secret Cold War history of Tetris
  
  The beloved game arose out of the opposing forces of the U.S. and the Soviet Union
- How a horse flu crisis fueled animals rights advocacy in the U.S.
  
  In 1872, New York’s devastating epizootic gave the ASPCA’s young founder a powerful moral argument for animal protection
- How the body’s own immune system can attack the brain
  
  Antibodies made by the immune system can sometimes target human brain cells, producing psychiatric symptoms. Researchers aim to better identify such rare cases as well as fine-tune treatments.
- Scientists just found a bizarre cosmic object ‘hiding in plain sight’
  
  Meet the Milky Way’s first microblazar
- 2026 could be the turning point on climate action, Al Gore says
  
  The former vice president thinks this year is when we’ll get serious about climate change
Science News
These are the first feathers ever found in fossilized dinosaur poop
The rare fossil hints that differences in plumage may explain why some Cretaceous-era birds survived an asteroid impact but others died.

See the secret to DNA hookups
A record player-like microscope and computer simulations solve a longtime mystery, showing that metal ions bridge DNA strands that would normally repel.

Meet the newest living cat species, the first described in 100 years
Genetic testing of two tiny tiger cats from Bolivia revealed a new species, adding a new branch to the feline family tree.

This year’s El Niño just broke a record months before it’s expected to peak
Daily sea surface temperatures in the region where El Niño develops are more extreme than at any point in recorded history.

Finally, a true blue rose exists
Scientists engineered roses that made both a blue pigment and a colorless helper molecule that brought out its shade.

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