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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
- 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
- Tomb in Siberia reveals humans were using cannabis 2800 years ago
  Psychoactive compounds have been found in a hair from a Scythian tomb in Siberia, providing the earliest direct evidence of cannabis being used as a drug
- The economic benefits of the covid vaccines may be double what we thought
  The global health and economic benefits of the covid-19 vaccines were thought to have reached up to $38 trillion in their first year, but a new analysis suggests $64.3 trillion is a more accurate figure
Scientific American
- Have astronomers spotted Planet Nine?
  
  Archived observations appear to show a moving object in the far-distant outer solar system, but its reality is unclear
- Kevin Roose says the race to build superintelligence is accelerating
  
  What happens when a technology becomes more powerful than its creators can fully understand?
- Ancient humans used cannabis in burial rituals 2,800 years ago
  
  New findings from a Siberian tomb offer the earliest direct evidence for human marijuana use
- These are the doctors and scientists elected in the 2026 midterms
  
  Learn more about the scientific community coming into office in January
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is changing the color of the ocean
  
  The ocean’s blue and green hues near the infamous zone of debris have gotten brighter over the past 20 years, satellite data show
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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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