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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
- Tiny ‘solar flares’ recreated in the lab may explain corona mystery
  An experiment has produced nanoflares similar to those seen on the sun, and shown that they can help explain why the outer layers of the solar atmosphere are so hot
- Earth entered its ‘bad decades’ after dinosaur-ending asteroid strike
  We now have a clearer picture of what happened in the decades following the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of almost all dinosaurs
- All tropical coral reefs could collapse within 50 years
  Shallow-water coral reefs are at high risk of disappearing by 2075, the IUCN has warned at a UN biodiversity conference. The loss would decimate fisheries and speed up coastal erosion
- Adults may be more creative than children – but less confident about it
  We often associate children with creativity, but adults actually performed better on inventive tasks, despite being less sure of themselves
- Global race to update computers as AI discovers most disruptive hack yet
  More than two thirds of the world's websites are vulnerable to a hack that was first theorised in 2024, which AI has now made very real
Scientific American
- Here’s what Moderna’s latest mRNA cancer vaccine data actually show
  
  The Moderna-Merck mRNA cancer vaccine helps prevent cancer recurrence and death, the new results show
- RFK, Jr., adviser Calley Means announces his resignation from the Trump administration
  
  Means’s views on the COVID vaccine, raw milk and fluoride have all been criticized by health care professionals
- This implant burns up excess blood sugar with electricity
  
  A new USB-sized device, tested in mice, could help people with type 2 diabetes better manage glucose levels
- Data centers are a target of modern warfare. How do we secure the infrastructure that runs our digital lives?
  
  Attacks against data centers in Europe and the Middle East are raising questions as to how we protect the infrastructure on which our digital lives depend
- The inside story behind OpenAI’s million-dollar math proof
  
  AI’s solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the details of how it happened, preview a chaotic future for math—and the world
Science News
A nanoparticle revealed the tiny impact of a single gas atom
The force exerted by a gas usually results from many atoms or molecules at once. But scientists isolated the force of a lone particle.

Was van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ a flight of fancy or a real sky?
Vincent van Gogh'spainted the iconic work in the summer of 1889. Now researchers claim to have pinned down which night the stars were from.

This ‘living drug’ could change the course of autoimmune disease
If given the green light by the FDA, a CAR T cell therapy from Kyverna Therapeutics would be the first approved treatment for stiff person syndrome.

AI could turn scientific papers into research assistants
An AI ‘virtual author’ can help scientists use a paper’s methods on new data. But it’s not going to match a human author’s expertise.

A lifesaving medication is not behind the drop in U.S. overdose deaths
A possible reason for the overdose deaths drop is more use of naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses. But while still a key tool, its use fell too.

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